Video of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on European reconnaissance mission re High-Speed rail

[Pirate Smile]

http://monocle.com/sections/affairs/Web-Articles/Prime-Minister-Andrus-Ansip/

"Later this year, Barack Obama's transportation secretary Ray LaHood will begin allocating $8 billion to emerging American train systems, with another $5 billion to come over the next five years - the first time ever that the US government has made such an investment. Until this year, the idea that Americans could enjoy European or Japanese-style train service was dismissed as a boutique cause of cosmopolitan columnists and futurist dreamers. Now leaving the country a set of rails equal to its roads will be Obama's transport legacy. Monocle's Washington Correspondent Sasha Issenberg travelled with LaHood on European reconnaissance mission."


Very interesting - watch it. It also includes talk of "livable communities" (i.e. no car necessary).