More High-Speed Trains

Posted by: Tim Halbur

2 September 2008 - 9:00am

Rail advocates are getting their day, as they push for more high-speed rail lines- not just in California, but across the country.

"Advocates of high-speed rail say the nation is primed like never before to accept a kind of transportation that has never quite caught on in the land of the automobile.

'That's one of the things that is a prime motivation right now in getting support in Congress,' says Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., whose proposal for a privately financed high-speed rail line from Washington, D.C., to New York City passed the House in June with bipartisan support. High gas prices are adding to my success.'"

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Source: ABC, August 29, 2008