"Ask the Expert" on high speed rail

Interesting little q&a with Al Engel, the VP of High Speed Rail:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmtrakOffic ... 8fXFM9J4Fg

Lots of reference to the High Speed Rail Vision published earlier this year.

Want to ask Bill Clinton?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 40058.html

Brief passage:

• And how would Mr. Clinton spend that supposed tax revenue? He wants to see more federal money going to infrastructure, broadband, job training, manufacturing, education, high-speed rail, biofuels, solar and wind energy, among much else. He views nearly everything the government does as an "investment." That is the industrial-policy model that was popularized in Europe and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. It hasn't worked out so well.

Funny how this is coming from the guy who whacked more Amtrak route (and train) miles than anyone other than fellow-Demmy Jimmy.