I don't disagree with his HSR statements. In fact we are improving the trip from Detroit to Chicago right now. We may not have the billions it would take to make a 200 mph trip possible, but we should be able to shave off a lot of time by just making the track operate more efficiently. One example is the Junction Yard in Detroit, improvements will save 15 minutes between the Detroit and Dearborn Stations alone.

I always thought of him as a charlatan, a Henry Hill screaming "We gots trouble!! Right here in River City!!" A man with no real plan. His backpeddaling on the Cool Cities is quite humorous as is he telling the lady whose neighborhood is disappearing around her that she is screwed. It is a far different story than he was peddaling earlier when the govts were giving him thousands of dollars on how to save thier cities.