I have some good news for the PNW tonight, the state of Washington has applied for a 200 million dollar grant for the Cascadia Ultra High-speed Rail project, this could be enough to begin environmental review of the project and get it out of the study phase it is stuck in

Washington lawmakers seek $200M for high-speed rail between Seattle, Portland and Vancouver
A bullet train that travels up to 250 miles per hour would "allow people to ... work anywhere in the megaregion," 10 members of Congress wro
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