Should Policy Question

Should the U.S. Department of Transportation develop the 10 high-speed rail corridors it re-designated in 2002?

High-speed rail is one area where the United States lags behind other industrialized countries.  The U.S. Department of Transportation identified 11 possible corridors in the nineties, but has developed almost none of them.  It re-established ten of the same corridors in 2002.  They are the Pacific Northwest Corridor, The California Corridor, the South Central Corridor, the Gulf Coast Corridor, the Chicago Hub Network, the Florida Corridor, the Southeast Corridor, the Keystone Corridor, the Empire Corridor, and the Northern New England Corridor.  For the sake of efficient travel without cars, America might or might not want to develop these and other routes.

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