I love my car and the freedom owning a car gives an individual so it’s seldom, if not never, that you will find me on the side of any form of public transportation. That was before I took off the blinders and looked into high speed rail.
The project is called the Midwest High-Speed Rail Project and is sponsored by the environmental law & policy center. The Environment Law & Policy Center has worked throughout its 15-year history to develop and promote a Midwest high-speed rail network that would link Chicago with other Midwestern cities through safe, convenient and comfortable 110-mph train service. Linking Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis with Chicago in a hub-and-spoke network, high-speed rail will improve mobility, create jobs and spur economic growth by pulling together the regional economy. It will protect our environment by avoiding pollution, reducing congestion, and counteracting sprawl by pulling jobs, people and businesses downtown into our central cities. A map shows the proposed project. While I don’t agree with every proposed route, I do agree with the concept!
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