Midwest Coalition on Highspeed Rail (Score 1)

The name above is not the correct name of the group, but I saw a presentation at the Metropolitain Conference on Public Transportation Research at the University of Illinois 2 - 4 years ago in which the speaker who was the head of a group that had secured Federal Funding for High Speed Rail said they were in the Final stages of planning before construction of a Springfield, Chicago, Milwaukee high-speed Rail line and that a Madison-Chicago or Chicago-Madison-Milwaukee link was also part of the deal. It was a number of years ago and so I do not remember the details, but it looked like it was fairly close to being a done deal.

I will check around with others who were at the conference in the next few days and see if I can post some accurate information. But the last I heard, High speed rail is not dead in the USA.

Now, I have to say, this is not 300 mph service. We are only talking 120 or 150 mph tops, but it still beats the heck out of driving.

Peter, The Peter Files

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