Obama may be bushy tailed and eager, but the frail freight system is not elastic enough to meet our needs. High Speed Passenger Rail does nothing but make the problem worse, and the US economy will be choked right back into recession. That is my interpretation of this report.
Amtrak, barely used in percentage terms, occupies 30% of the rail space in many US regions. Obama has let the HSR lobby rise at the expense of this critical rail freight problem, and Obama should know better he has been dealing with the wost of the freight congestion problems for years, Chicago.
Somebody in the Department of Transportation has not been thinking this through.
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