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I dont know what the US government was thinking not making Pittsburgh the HUB to bring the Midwest and East Coast together....Pittsburgh is the direct center of these two Megaoplises and the easiest city to make a HUB...
Branches from Philly/NYC/DC should feed in to Pittsburgh from the East
and
Branches from Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland and St Louis/Cincy/Columbus should be feeding from the West. (Indy can be feed with a Chicago/Indy/Columbus Line)
blackbeauty, if the keystone east and study of west is funded, we'll at least be on the way. if pitt is to become a hub, it's likely much of the hub will initially be through philadelphia (north to ny, south to DC). it's probably the most "off the shelf" proposal there is right now so one would hope it gets funded, we'll see.
I'd like to see high-speed rail linking Chicago with Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis; there is an Amtrak line which goes through this area, but it stops about 20-30 miles outside of Madison.
I'd also like to see high-speed rail running from Boston northward through Burlington, and up to Montreal..
I'm looking forward to the bullet train between LA & the Bay Area. It will take about as much time to fly when adding in wait time in terminals [about 2 hours]. Currently it takes 7 hours to drive from San Fransisco to Los Angeles.
Governor Schwarzenegger recently pulled all the rail projects in California except the bullet train between the Bay Area & LA. People weren't too happy about it in LA because we need more light rail\ subways & don't have enough $ to fund it without federal money.
I watched Obama's speech on tv today as he was here in Tampa. He announced that Florida and California would be the first to receive the money because they were the most prepared.
The California one,of course. And if one day they could connect with the PNW line to have HSR from Vancouver through LA
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