The people of Wisconsin who commute from Madison to Milwaukee and vice versa would find a High speed rail line useful for many reasons. Granted most people that commute from Madison to Milwaukee of vice versa aren’t doing it every day. They are generally just doing it once in a while. The technology of high speed rails is relatively simple; it consists of magnetic tracks repelling the train with a polar opposite magnet on the bottom. This creates a surface with little friction; therefore the train can go faster. A lot of factors come into play when the state thinks of funding this. Governor Walker rejected the funds and cancelled the project in 2010, but there are people that sill have hope. The cost of operation is in the millions per year and the initial set up cost is very large. But the revenue from the passengers should at least break even with the cost of operation each year. The state of Wisconsin should fund a high speed rail line from Madison to Milwaukee in order to cut down on green house gas emissions and take traffic off of the interstates.
California is moving forward with a 700 mile high speed rail system for travelers to get around the state easier (“The American Approach…”). The speeds are going to go as high as two hundred miles per hour on the line (“The American Approach…’). California is moving ahead with this project because they know it will be a greener approach to transportation. It isn’t a surprise that California is the first state to put dedicated high speed rail lines in, after all they have to have special parts placed on their vehicles in order to control emissions. If the Midwest were to initiate a high speed rail system, travel throughout the region would be accessible to anyone wanting to tr...
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...re the line from Madison to Milwaukee would only coast 7.5 million dollars to run per year. Compare this to the hundreds of millions of dollars that it may cost to set up the line.
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