Echoing the challenges to establishing train travel in Michigan, our entire nation is far behind the ball when it comes to rail travel. Is it our pathological love of the car? Our inability to invest in the future? Our short sighted, highly partisan political leaders? The answer is yes.
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"Compared with the high-speed trains of Western Europe and East Asia, American passenger rail is notoriously creaky, tardy, and slow. The Acela, currently the only "high-speed" train in America, runs at an average pace of 68 miles per hour between Washington and Boston; a high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona averages 154 miles per hour. Amtrak's most punctual trains arrive on schedule 75 percent of the time; judged by Amtrak's lax standards, Japan's bullet trains are late basically 0 percent of the time."
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