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What Next TBD: Can America Fix Its Trains?

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

America used to be at the vanguard of railroad technology. What went wrong? And can the new infrastructure bill fix our broken system? Guests: Alon Levy and Eric Goldwyn of the Marron Institute at NYU Host Henry Grabar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8

Take a trip into the near future with me.

0:35.2

A future where Amtrak service looks less like the slow old system that we all know, and

0:40.3

more like the bullet trains that whisk people across countries like Japan and France.

0:45.8

This is what I think of as normal high speed rails.

0:49.5

New York to Washington in an hour 45, maybe an hour 40.

0:53.5

New York Boston about the same.

0:55.3

New York Philly should be 40, 45 minutes apart.

1:01.4

That's Alon Levy who has spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve train service.

1:06.7

Alon is a mathematician by training, but they're working now on something called the Transit

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