High-speed rail sparks war of words among US politicians

The ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called the Midwest states’ proposed high-speed rail routes ‘another bailout programme with low-speed trains to nowhere’. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood told Georgia it ‘doesn’t have its act together’ and therefore didn’t deserve more funding for its high-speed rail efforts.

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