'Gussied-up prairie schooners'

摘要

Those of you who have been involved in the high speed rail business for a while may recall, with acid reflux, Herb Kelleher, the man who, with some creative legal shenanigans, single-handedly succeeded in killing the Texas TGV in the early 1990s. Let's go back to Don Itzkoff's "High Speed Currents" column in the July 1991 issue of Railway Age (p. 14) for some perspective:rn"[Its] emergence into the national spotlight parallels a new, broader acceptance of high speed ground transportation as a significant future travel option for Americans. But recent events in Austin . . . teach a lesson in reality as well-that changing the entrenched domestic, political, economic, and institutional order to accommodate new high speed ground transportation systems will not be easy.