UPenn Students Create Ambitious plan for NE Corridor High Speed Rail service

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Just straighten the NEC and add 2 dedicated tracks for True HSR and you'll be fine. Theres no reason to build a New NEC......why would you go onto LI? The NIMBY's would kill the project on announcement. As for the CT alignment Amtrak has plans to electrify and upgrade the New Haven - Springfield Corridor and Springfield - Boston Corridor. So in a way that becomes a New NEC , its really a new Trunk system for New England to build off of. 90% of it will be grade separated form what i'm told. This has to many stations like some have said , some of those stations are covered by the LIRR & other systems. Most NEC stations with the exception of NYC , Boston and DC have alot of spar capacity left. Cities centers should be best left for Transit hubs , Not HSR stations....