That's already a busy rail corridor. But guess what? It's falling apart.
Millions of people pass through the NYC rail terminals every year, and the big inter-city one is crippled by infrastructure failures and damaged tunnels that connect to NJ. It seems that the NJ government spent Federal $$ provided to fix it on something else.
Acela is not really high-speed rail. They should build out bona-fide high-speed rail ala Shinkansen. New track, new rolling stock, new propulsion systems, and affordable fares. NYC-Boston should be half of what it is now and they should eliminate all the "classes". It should be simply utilitarian transport.
I'm not American, but I doubt it very much. It seems to me, from the outside, so take it with a grain of salt, that the crippled infrastructure thing is politically motivated and working as planned.
Millions of people pass through the NYC rail terminals every year, and the big inter-city one is crippled by infrastructure failures and damaged tunnels that connect to NJ. It seems that the NJ government spent Federal $$ provided to fix it on something else.
We're living in an age of incompetence.