damn straight
Under the current economic climate, the high speed rail is going to come off as an overpriced boondoogle that does grave harm to Obama's re-election chances.
The US already has a pretty decent substitute - good-n-cheap private buses. They have wifi, they run the bulk of the proposed high speed rail routes, they're comfortable, they're dirt cheap, they're privately funded, they run with mind boggling frequency.
If you're comfy and you have internet, do you really care that much if it's 4 hours or 2.5 hours? Not really, not for 95% of the population.
Is Nelder too clueless or too biased to fail to mention this American-style, transportation solution that's emerging all around him?
