All across the South, where the automobile is king, growing numbers of voters and public officials are supporting high-speed rail as a sensible alternative. Given a huge boost by voter approval of a statewide referendum authorizing the construction of a high-speed rail network in Florida, bullet train advocates throughout the South are making their case for rail links between all of the major cities in Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.
Proponents envision a passenger rail service connecting Atlanta and Charlotte.
The proposed bullet train trip would take only two hours, compared to three and a half hours by car. The momentum is growing following last week's inaugural run of the Amtrak Acela Express from Washington to New York. San Francisco's woes have become the East Bay's gains. Ian Stuart, a partner in the advisory practice of Colliers International, said that lingering traffic concerns are prompting more and more companies to migrate to the East Bay from Silicon Valley and San Francisco. And the place people live is the East Bay.