Generations of Americans are going to benefit from a new way of walking and a new way of talking when it comes to the country's infrastructure and their way of life.
Remember the "Disney Train." I don't know if that still runs, but, someday families will load up their electric cars on rail cars and ride in sleeper compartments to travel to visit family over the December holidays and New Year.
It has to come to pass. This is not simply spending for the sake of spending. It is spending for a purpose.
Thirty years of construction, development and jobs with sustainable purpose is a long time and the country desperately needs that commitment, now and in the future. Take a look at that map. In some of the most impoverished areas of the USA there will be life breathed into those stagnant economies. Tell me, tell anyone that it doesn't make sense to invest in Americans. American jobs for Americans and a requirement should be companies hired to build and fabricate materials are in the USA employing Americans for this project.
Out with the old and in with the new. It is long overdue. Long overdue.
Republicans will make a wedge issue out of anything. The funding for the completion of the project isn't final. The future of thirty years has yet to take shape and modernization brings innovation and improvements. Don't let the Republicans make a wedge issue of jobs and the future of our country. It isn't necessary. We need revenues, not, indecisiveness !
...A two-mile stretch of one of the busiest highways (click title to entry - thank you) in the central San Joaquin Valley will have to scoot over by 100 feet to make way for high-speed rail.
The relocation of Highway 99 in west-central Fresno is just one of the big changes in store if the massive rail project is built.
Dozens of railroad crossings would close, and new overpasses and undercrossings would be built on country roads and city streets. With trains moving at up to 220 mph, there won't be any gated railroad crossings on the high-speed line.
On the other hand, some officials say that could ease traffic congestion and cut down on noise from freight train horns....
