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High-Speed Rail in the United States: Back on Track after 50 Years of Neglect

France's V150 TGV fast train on the high-speed line between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg. Although the full flowering of the US rail renaissance is unlikely to get under way while Obama is still in the White House,an initial infusion of $8bn, set aside under the spring's economic stimulus plan, the Obama administration is embarking on the most ambitious expansion of passenger rail in 50 years. (Photograph: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images)

Long before he became president, Barack Obama had a hankering for the TGV and other fast trains. "I am always jealous about European trains," he told an audience during a visit to Strasbourg last spring. "And I said to myself: why can't we have high-speed rail?"

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