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Obama's High Speed Rail Strategy: What Will Happen When the Steel Meets the Track?

Way too expensive for the utility of the thing. Has anyone considered the topography of the planned routes? I'm no rail engineer, but I seem to recall the level of the grade has a lot to do with the ability to have a high speed rail system. Can that be maintained on all these planned routes? Can the Watermelon Party be appeased sufficiently so that when the track will pass over a certain endangered worm species, the worms will not stop the tracks of progress? Bottom line, this project would be the biggest boondoggle in U.S. history (excepting the war on poverty).