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Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System?
Author: WebDigger
Date: 08-22-2014 - 20:23

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What's missing is a federal commitment to a well-funded national rail plan. Instead, we have a political system in which the federal government, having devolved virtually all decision-making power to states, cannot prioritize one project over another in the national interest. We have a funding system that encourages study after study of unfundable or unbuildable projects in places that refuse to commit their own resources. And we have a bureaucracy that, having never operated or constructed modern intercity rail, doesn't understand what it takes. This helter-skelter approach to transportation improvements is fundamentally incapable of supporting large-expenditure, long-range projects like high-speed rail.
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  Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System? WebDigger 08-22-2014 - 20:23
  Re: Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System? Am Operative 08-22-2014 - 23:34
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