Tuesday 5 January 2016

Arthur Koster: Millennials will ride high-speed rail

It is absurd for a state that prides itself on leadership and innovation to have such a heavy and vocal opposition to something that embodies those very principles – high-speed rail.

With an ever-teetering economy and an increasing population, our future as leaders and innovators depends on a varied, more efficient infrastructure for transportation that allows for an increased capacity for traveling and commuting. If we want to provide a foundation for a stable economy for the millennial generation and those after, we must invest in infrastructure projects that will provide just that.

Millennials are fast moving, and high-speed rail provides a transportation infrastructure to support that. The high-speed rail network would provide many benefits for millennials by offering faster travel and more job opportunities – both directly through the addition of high-speed rail jobs and the ability to commute to a wider variety of job markets, and indirectly through the increased job opportunities that will be seen with a thriving economy, for which high-speed rail can lay the foundation. For the full article click here 



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