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At least some of you think like me. I step on my soap box one more time. For just a penny federal and state tax on gasoline, America could build over the years a high speed rail network the envy of the world. I have proposed a starter parralegram from New York, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta of about 4,000 miles of new tracks. Lately I have looked at the population figures of our major metropolitan areas. At first we should build tracks for metros of over 5 million. Dallas/Houston, Miami/Orlando/Tampa-Saint Petersburg, Philadelphia/Cleveland, New York City/Toronto, Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland, Atlanta/ Washington DC, Los Angeles/San Francisco bay area. Boston/New York City/Philadelphia/Washington DC already exists (although there is a need for some improvements). Eventfully we shall link these lines to metros of 2.5 million. Dallas/Austin-San Antonio, Houston/San Antonio-Austin, Houston/New Orleans, New Orleans/ Atlanta, New Orleans/Jacksonville, Orlando/Jacksonville/Atlanta, New York City/Montreal, Chicago/Minneapolis-St. Paul/ Chicago/St. Louis/Kansas City, Kansas City/Denver, Kansas City/Dallas, Denver/Dallas, Denver/Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix/Los Angeles, Portland/Seattle. At this point my parralegram would be completed, with several branches. This would result in about 10,000 miles of high speed rail, it seems Denver is a long distance from the rest. At this point, if the high speed railroad has taken off and has become a success, we could then link to metros of a million.... I sent this as an email to Kay Bailey Hutchinson and she loved it.... The state of Texas says high speed rail can be built for $5 million a mile (plus right of way and overpasses and underpasses having already been built by other means of travel, the turnpikes of the Trans Texas corridors). The state of Florida says high speed rail can be built for $9 million a mile (including right of way, overpasses and underpasses, and stations); $12 million per mile if electrified ($3 million a mile more). 10,000 miles times $12 million a mile equals $120 billion.
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