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High-speed rail is BS, but I love it anyway

By Erik Curren | February 11, 2011

Plan USA high speed rail map

The Obama administration has re-started its campaign for high-speed rail this week. I want to believe in it. I love all trains, and especially fast ones with aero nosecones like rockets, speeding through a field of sunflowers while cozy inside, passengers read Proust on a Kindle and sip Cointreau from Bohemian crystal. But given that deficit-hawk Republicans committed to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Florida, Joe Biden, passenger rail, US Congress

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