Get on board!

Maybe the time will come. More and more people are turning to rail transportation as gasoline price keep rising and the airlines do crazy things, like eliminating planes as well as the number of flights and cities to which they will fly. Ridership is up almost all over the country: 20% in North Carolina, 19% between Chicago and St. Louis, 20% on the Boston-NY-Washington Acela run. but most of the developed world laughs at us. You can get from London to Paris, 213 miles, in 2 hours 15 minutes which is about the same distance as NY-Washington and our trains take 45 minutes longer. Having seen a tv segment on this line it's easy to see why it takes longer: the track is not always in a straight line, the engineer must slow down for curves to avoid going off the track. Fixable? Not without a lot of trouble, no doubt, but "where there's a will, there's a way". And we need to find the way to do things like this in addition to a lot more in order to get Åmerica's rail system up to snuff!!