Billions of dollars have been allocated for high-speed rail projects around the U.S. And every cent of it could wind up being a colossal waste if the major HSR projects underway get stymied by newly-elected political leaders who’ve cast HSR as a giant money pit. Just how politically divided are we on the question of HSR? Transport Politic blogger (and Infrastructurist contributor) Yonah Freemark put together the above chart that couldn’t make things much clearer: Just about every Republican candidate in the November elections is staunchly opposed to U.S. HSR, while nearly every Democratic candidate supports it.
In other words, whether or not the biggest HSR projects underway — those in California, Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin — have a prayer of being completed all depends on who gets elected in November. States like Wisconsin and Ohio have already become battlegrounds over HSR, with Republicans painting it as that always-effective aspersion, “a waste of taxpayer funds.”
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