Could we be seeing the pre-staging of the President's speech here?
When you start to see the identical narrative (usually based upon dubious correlations) pop up in different places at about the same time, you have to suspect that they've been planted in anticipation of another policy push.
Those promoting public policy might consider improving public transportation as a way to strengthen local economies. The Obama administration has made recent investments in high-speed rail and other national-level infrastructure initiatives.
Might they? Isn't this recycled rhetoric from the last couple go-rounds?
If we lived in a country where "stimulus" had not become synonymous with being nothing more than a pork barrel orgy of crony capitalism, America would probably be able to be sold on this. But the Progressives blew it. Over a trillion has been wasted, and there's little to show for it. Nobody believes or trusts you any more. They don't want to keep doing the same insane thing over and over, only waking up to worse hangovers each time.
Oh, and we've beaten HSR to death here, and the Chinese boondoggle should have but the final nail in the "If the Chinese can do it, we should" narrative.
