Levy is wrong. There, I said it. American growth of the last 80 years is incompatible with the future of the world. You won't save a sprawly mess by putting

Levy is wrong. There, I said it. American growth of the last 80 years is incompatible with the future of the world. You won't save a sprawly mess by putting a high speed rail station in the center of it. If it was an important city before the age of the automobile, it has a chance. Put the "future" rail network in the cities that have a future. Point number two, and probably even more important than the first, is the fact that you have to get your plan through a million committees, and through Congress, etc. You need support. His plan won't get it. Too much of it goes through places that hate trains and "socialism". And then it tells the people that have nostalgic memories of a railroad that lifted their family out of the Jim Crow south to go pound sand. His plan will never go further than his blog :) Would you like an analogy to this situation? Everybody in tech has incredible ideas for the future. But the startup world is littered with companies that have had no success at all getting from point A to point B despite billions in VC money.