On the recommendation of my mom, I listened to a segment from NPR Wisconsin on the future of trains in America. The first half of the segment is a talk with Phillip Longman, Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation. Author, “The Next Progressive Era: A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity.” He talked about putting more freight on trains and how there are issues in Chicago (watch the video below from PBS on the issues in Chicago). The second half of the segment was a talk with Simon Montague, Director of Corporate Communications, Eurostar high-speed passenger train in the UK and Europe. He discusses how high speed rail in Europe is competing well with the planes and roads.
A link to the talk is here, and I suggest watching this picture slide show of HSR from Flickr while listening to the talk.
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