Ohio's $564 million passenger rail plan, which proposes to connect its three largest cities with a train whose average speed will crawl along at only 39 mph in some places, is used in an expose article about why all the buzz about high speed rail funding will produce little if any truly high speed trains like run in Europe or Japan, because virtually all of the funding coming from the White House and Congress will be used to subsidize upgrading freight rail company tracks that will only indirectly benefit Amtrak trains like Ohio wants to use.
Ohio's expensive and creepy slow train system is highlighted.
It begs the question, why are we redirecting billions to subsidize track upgrades for profitable freight rail companies?