Skift Take
Europe's winning the high-speed rail race, and it's lead looks insurmountable at this juncture.
Like everything else in Washington, the quest to bring high-speed rail to the northeast corridor of the U.S. comes down to the tug of war between public and private funding.
The Republican-controlled House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure was conducting a hearing today on future prospects for northeast corridor high-speed rail.
The outlook isn't encouraging -- unless you can wait about 30 years to do a Boston to New York rail trip at around 220 mph.
In briefing papers before the hearing, the Republican majority on the committee noted that Amtrak
