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And now—fi nally!—we seem to be getting serious about
high-speed trains in the United States. On Election Day in the
fall of 2008, California voters approved a $10 billion bond issue
that was a green light for preliminary work to begin on a high-
speed rail line linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. Governors
and mayors in several Midwestern states are also organizing and
beginning to plan high-speed rail routes. Within months of taking
offi ce, President Barack Obama announced his support for build-
ing high-speed rail lines that would link several major American
Northern New England
Paci
orthwest
Empire
Chicago Hub
Network
Keystone
NEC
California
Southeast
South Central
Gulf Coast
KEY
Florida
Designated High-speed Rail Corridor
Northeast Corridor (NEC)
Other Passenger Rail Routes
(Alaska Railroad (Seward to Fairbanks/Eielson) not shown.)
An important fi rst step in the development of high-speed rail in the united States was
the designation of a number of corridors around the country that would link major cities.
Now it's a question of where the money will come from.
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