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[quote user="G Mack"]I just saw an article from the Trains newswire about Illinois passing legislation to join the Midwest High Speed Rail Initiative. While this is good news, it is also a point of frustration with me. As a guy that is in his late 40s now, I will probably be gone by the time a true high speed train system is operational in the midwest. These big ticket items seem to take forever to go from the document signing stage to actual fruition.I live in Indianapolis and go to Chicago occasionally but I don't like the drive up I-65 into the city. It acutally makes me depressed sometimes to be sitting in traffic knowing that it could be so much easier if we only had rail transit. The midwest could benefit like the northeast and the west coast cities, yet each year passes with nothing changing.Okay, I feel somewhat better now. I'll get down off the milk crate. Would like to hear from some of the other forum members what they think. Is rail transit in our future or decades down the pipeline?G Mack[/quote] Depends upon what one considers "high speed" I guess.  Are you talking about bullet trains? Or something fast, yet more practical on the pocket book? Say in the neighborhood of 110 mph At the Indiana DOT website they have a plan outlined for a 110 mph system:  <a href="http://www.in.gov/dot/div/multimodal/railroad/MWRRSmap.pdf">MAP </a>-<a href="http://www.in.gov/dot/div/multimodal/railroad/MWRRSmap.pdf"> </a><a href="http://www.in.gov/dot/div/multimodal/railroad/MWRRS2.pdf">OPERATING PLAN  </a>that looks interesting , but look at the price tag.$7.7 billion to build a system that will cut travel time from chicago to cleveland  from the current 6 1/2 hours down to 4 1/2 hours. I'm 49 and I'd be willing to bet That I'll be dead before such a system ever reached operation. SO clearly the only plan that makes sense is to let future generations pay for the sucker too. They are gonna ride it, so why should we pay for it?
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