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By F.K. Plous, High Speed Rail Alliance: May 18, 2020
If the United States is to have a modern passenger-rail system, advocates will have to agree on a program of ideas and efforts likely to lead to its successful establishment. A historical review of the nation’s successful highway and civil-aviation programs can provide clues to which principles are likely to work.
History shows that all successful U.S. transportation programs are: