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Seattle to Vancouver in 57 minutes? Political leaders push for cross-border high-speed rail

GEEKWIRE - Nate Levy - VANCOUVER, B.C. — Plenty of barriers have kept Seattle and Vancouver from becoming a single, connected region. Chief among them, the international border and the numerous traffic jams that travelers inevitably encounter one a journey between the two cities.

One solution to that: high-speed rail. As part of the Emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Vancouver B.C. Tuesday, political leaders from both sides of the border pitched an idea to build trains that would travel between Seattle and Vancouver in less than an hour.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/seattle-vancouver-57-minutes-political-leaders-push-cross-border-high-speed-rail/

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