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Chicago Tribune Joins The Ranks Of High-Speed Rail Critics

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 25
Last year, in congressional testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on high speed rail, we cited the Chicago-to-St.Louis “high-speed rail” project as an example of the Administration’s wasteful use of its economic stimulus money. We pointed out that the $1.4 billion program of track upgrades will allow top speed of 110 mph but will raise average speeds of Amtrak trains between Chicago and St. Louis by only 10 miles per hour, from 53 to 63 mph.

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