Is America’s quest for high-speed trains finally picking up steam?::New projects in California, Texas, and Florida are a sign that the United States is finally getting serious about modernizing its commuter railway system.

  • @Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    subsidies for roads and air vastly outnumber train subsidies and planning decisions are made around grant funding. Until the inflation reduction act there was zero grant funding for public trainways.

    Part of this is the US government is just 5 oil companies in a trenchcoat