(Source: Global Railway Review opinion column by Karen Philbrick, August 20, 2018. Philbrick is Executive Director the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University.)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — High-speed rail will provide Americans with another transportation option and enable us to remain an economic powerhouse. It simply isn’t feasible to continually add freeway miles or expand airport operations to service the demand for mobility. As noted by Roger Millar, Secretary of the Washington Department of Transportation, in his keynote during the 2018 Joint Policy Committee meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials: “Building more highway capacity to solve congestion issues isn’t the answer.”
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