Marcia Hale

Building America’s Future

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President of Building America’s Future, an advocacy group for infrastructure investment

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High-speed rail is still a pipedream for politicians and the train lines that do exist are slow and expensive. To get a better sense of why the train system in the U.S.

The State of Rail in America

High-speed rail is still a pipedream for politicians and the train lines that do exist are slow and expensive. To get a better sense of why the train system in the U.S.

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