High-speed Rail — Environmentally Friendly and Popular Worldwide — has a Hard Time in the U.S.
“It’s mostly owned by the freight rail companies, who have their own businesses to run and their own freight to deliver,” said Robert Puentes, CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation.
“It’s not a ‘if you build it, they will come’ type of scenario,” Puentes said. “It would actually be fitting a need.”