State Wins $590 Million for High Speed Rail
From The News Tribune:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/1047052.html
Money will be used to fix issues with the line, allowing speeds of up to 100 mph for the Cascades Talgo trainsets. This will cut up to an hour off the travel time between Seattle and Portland
While many people say that projects like this are a waste of money, having traveled by high speed rail in Europe, it is definitely a good alternative to flying for certain intermediate distances, and beats driving by a long shot. Portland isn’t that far from Seattle, below 200 miles, which makes it almost unreasonable to fly there. As to driving, it is possible but given the heavy congestion along the corridor, this does make more sense.
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