John Mica on Northeast Corridor high speed rail/transit legislation that works for taxpayers and commuters -open up NEC to competition

Fox Business News Channel - House Transportation chairman John Mica Discusses High-Speed Rail. June 7, 2011.
http://youtu.be/9V2mGU3z81g




U.S. House Transportation Comm. chairman John Mica discusses efforts at reforming American transit/transportation policy, high speed rail legislation in the Northeast corridor, i.e the Mica-Shuster Intercity Rail bill and the importance of having a meaningful public-private partnership (P3) rather than continue to rely on the failed current template, wherein AmTrak makes ALL the decisions.

June 15, 2011 http://youtu.be/k3oDTsp2Bv8

The best story I've seen on this effort to take AmTrak out of the driver's seat, which I agree with, is this one from the National Journal's Transportation Experts blog:

National Journal

Amtrak: Is It Really the Same Old Debate?

By Fawn Johnson

June 20, 2011

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., last week came up with a pretty cool way to unveil an idea that he has been tossing around for some time. His policy proposal, which comes as no surprise, is to separate Amtrak from the Northeast Corridor and open the heavily trafficked route up to private competition.

Read the rest of the post at
http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/2011/06/amtrak-is-it-really-the-same-o.php

http://youtu.be/2KmU2Ge_XPo

An advertisement for the X2000 train used by SJ AB -Swedish Railways

http://youtu.be/CaiP2f-s0C4

The jazz music played here in the advert made me think of the pseudo-sophisticated feel we were supposed to get from the Harrison Ford-Kristin Scott Thomas relationship in the 1999 film Random Hearts.

I love Kristin Scott Thomas, but... the constant over-the-top jazz just got me irritated instead of engaged in the narrative!

See also:

http://transportation.house.gov/

Fast Tracks USA YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/USHSR

Fast Tracks USA homepage: www.ushsr.com

Reconnecting America homepage: http://reconnectingamerica.org/

http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/

English language homepage for SJ AB -Swedish Railway:

http://www.sj.se/start/startpage/index.form?l=en