'Back on track': Biden unveils plan for first US high-speed train

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 09, 2023 11:35 am

LAS VEGAS: Train enthusiast Joe Biden unveiled a $8.2 billion plan Friday to get America's creaking rail network back on track, including its first ever high-speed link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States.

Laura Mason (R), executive vice president for capital delivery at Amtrak, walks on a platform at Union Station in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States. President Joe Biden's administration is hoping to change that as it unveils major rail investments on December 8, 2023, including the United States' first high-speed train -- between Los Angeles and Las Vegas -- which it aims to complete by 2028. (Photo by Bastien INZAURRALDE / AFP)

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