Investing in environmentally friendly and energy-efficient high-speed rail projects will:
- Create highly skilled jobs in the transportation industry, and revitalize domestic industries supplying transportation products and services. Upgrade passenger and freight operations on newly revitalized tracks, bridges and rights of way spurring business productivity along all corridors. Employment growth in a domestic rail industry will be a key component of America’s economic future, providing hundreds of thousands of forward-looking, green collar jobs.
- Reduce the nation’s dependency on foreign oil while keeping billions of dollars in the U.S. economy; decrease greenhouse gas emissions; help meet national and international climate change goals; and improve air quality.
- Mitigate congestion, improve connectivity and provide travel choices. The U.S. population is expected to grow by 50 percent between 2000 and 2050. The population increase is creating mega-regions that will not prosper unless they can be freed from the stranglehold of highway and airport congestion.
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