Future is now for high-speed rail – JSOnline

Don’t forget our relationship with the giant metropolis to the south, the City of Big Shoulders. Most cities would die for the chance to connect with Chicago on a regular basis, but in Milwaukee you’re at the mercy of an abbreviated train schedule or a two-hour drive that was exacerbated last summer due to confounding I-94 construction.

Bottom line, there’s got to be a better way.

The potential for the current stimulus package from the federal government to be the seed money for high-speed rail lines connecting Milwaukee to Chicago is well-discussed here. I will be writing more on this subject–important as we finally understand how wrong-headed we were to dismantle most of our surface rail passenger transportation network in the second half of the 20th century. This subject is dealt with in detail in my PowerPoint presentation, No Little Plans: The Roads of Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago.