Consequence Quote by Noam Chomsky

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our…

— Corrine Brown

We are the only major developed nation that isn't investing meaningfully in high-speed rail, and I believe we're making a mistake. Transportation systems that…

— Richard Florida

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

— Mike Rutherford

We should be focusing on boosting passenger safety and improving our existing highways and railroads - not wasting taxpayer money on a train to…

— Michelle Steel

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize…

— Joe Biden

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a…

— James Howard Kunstler

“To know the everlasting majority attitude toward new uses of productive energy, remember that your great-grandfather did not believe that railroads were possible. At…

— Rose Wilder Lane

When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.

— Kevin de Leon

What we're trying to accomplish is the cheapest, fastest, cleanest form of major public transportation. There's economic value in being able to move people…

— Shervin Pishevar

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

— Anthony Foxx

The railways should be run in the best interest of passengers and, overall, taxpayer's money should be spent improving the network, not subsiding it.

— Chris Grayling

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

— Marine Le Pen