Date: 2016-Jul-20, Wednesday 14:09 (UTC)
Nixon wasn't the designer though. I don't know his thoughts, but I know the freight railroads wanted off the burden of doing it, so it may have simply been indulging them.


It wouldn't be exactly like the Japanese system, no, but there *are* high-speed rail lines in the works, and better funding would improve reliability, quality of service, etc..
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