High_Speed_Rail__What_Our_Nation_Needs

High Speed Rail: What Our Nation Needs Many of the nation’s transportation planners and experts agree that the United States is on the verge of a transportation crisis. The nation’s automobile and airline transportation systems, while very viable modes of travel, are already facing noticeable crises. The traffic congestion is showing up around the country’s cities and suburbs. Highway and airport construction is already far outpaced by demand and new construction creates evident problems. With the nation’s ever-growing population looking to travel inexpensively, safely, and comfortably, not many feasible options are given to transportation officials. However, there is one tried and true method that officials are frequently voicing their opinions in favor of, and that is revamping the nation’s neglected passenger rail systems. Many Americans are aware of Amtrak and its legacy of problems, and for all its and other passenger rail projects’ potential they have falling by the wayside in last half of the 20th century as popular forms of travel. Anthony Perl summed it up nicely with this statement, “Nowhere else in the industrial world was the passenger train’s rise in importance so meteoric, and nowhere else in the post-industrial world was this followed by steep decline” (Perl 1). Yet, the proposed railroads of today hsr, transportation, nation’s, rail, worsnop, traffic, congestion, trains, speed, one, nation, government, while, travel, states, planners, passenger, new, method, high, even, cities, because, world, vehicles, trips, pollution, officials, need, let, infrastructure, highways, high-speed, existing, development, crisis