(Source: Urben Field Notes, October 26, 2023)
On several rail-friendly corridors — big city pairs less than 300 miles apart — train travel will go from an eccentric travel option to a perfectly logical one. That vision of the not-so-distant future starts to crystallize as you survey major inter-city passenger rail improvements underway, or with a feasible path to fruition. These improvements to conventional passenger rail — as opposed to 150mph or above high-speed rail — don’t get a lot of attention in the media. But they will cumulatively impact the lives of many more Americans, much sooner, than multi-generational infrastructure projects like California High-Speed Rail.
Full story: Urben Field Notes