It's been a huge sea-change for transportation in the last 12 months.
One year ago few people thought trains had a chance.
Now everyone's upset we do not have more trains, faster trains, on time trains, trains stopping at their house.
Here's one story bemoaning the slow pace of progress in getting a national high speed rail network more quickly.
Another illustration. I was visiting with my cousins about a newspaper story in which people were complaining a proposed train station in Madison, Wisconsin, will stop at the airport outside of town rather than right downtown. The sea-change: no one was questioning the train, everyone wanted to ride the train, they just wanted it to stop somewhere else.
People are going to be very unhappy with trains for a very long time. And that's a good thing.
Richard Florida posted this piece, with maps, on mega regions and high speed rail:
http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/05/05/mega-regions-and-high-speed-rail/
Posted by: Harold Jarche | May 05, 2009 at 02:51 PM