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By: Daniel Nardini
And as for America…..This country seems to be going nowhere in this regards. All high speed trains pretty much remain in what is called the U.S. northeast corridor. The U.S. government has not allocated money for high speed trains for the rest of the country. And the federal government has certainly not allocated funding for updating and replacing the railway infrastructure for Illinois and Chicago in particular. Despite all of this, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has been able to find $3 billion to try and fix the decaying infrastructure as best he can. Many of the rail tracks, bridges, and crossing gates were constructed in the late 19th Century and the middle 20th Century. A lot of this has not been updated over the decades, and because of severe budget cuts by the state and federal governments (and all the wars we have been fighting), our rail bridges, rail tracks and crossing gates are beginning to fall apart. What Mayor Emmanuel is doing is trying to repair and replace what is going to pieces.
This way, he and other suburban town mayors are trying to keep America’s rail stock moving. This is simply trying to repair a system that still operates, but is wholly inadequate to the task of bringing America into the 21st Century. These state leaders are trying to keep their part of America’s railroad system going, and bless them for it! And their part of this is extremely important to put it mildly. Illinois and especially Chicago is the key railway link from the east coast to the west coast of the United States. Chicago is the headquarters of the central part of the country’s railway system. In order for America to have high speed rail, Chicago must be one of the main operation headquarters for it. At this point Washington, D.C. does not seem to be interested in doing this, and so Chicago and so many other cities must try to fix a railroad system that is more suited to the 20th Century than the 21st.