Following up on the portion of yesterday’s blog regarding rail, it turns out that the kickoff for President Obama’s high speed rail plan begins here in the southeast.
Charlotte will bat lead-off in a national high-speed rail vision road show – a series of workshops in seven U.S. cities put on by the Federal Railroad Administration.
The workshop – the only one to be held for the Southeast Corridor – will be 1-4:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel, 2800 Coliseum Centre Dr. (off the Billy Graham Parkway).
In the comments section of the above referenced blog, there is a link to a Slate article discussing high speed rail and some interesting information and links on other projects and their estimated costs. Suffice to say that because of cost, we won’t be seeing rail in the near future.
