U.S. Vice President Joe - Joe Biden (Joe Biden) on Tuesday said Barack - Obama (Barack Obama) president will ask Congress next week to approve a six-year plan, the total amount of 53 billion U.S. dollars of the content of the program is to build a national intercity high-speed rail network.
Biden said in a speech today in Philadelphia: "As a country, there are many areas that we can not afford the expense, of which one is the infrastructure." Barack Obama will be Feb. 14 to submit to Congress the budget for fiscal year 2012 program. Under this plan, the U.S. government will spend the first year of about $ 8,000,000,000 to develop or improve inter-city rail channel. Biden said that these channels will form the backbone of the national high-speed rail system.
The Intercity high-speed railway corridor will be divided into three categories, namely "core Express" (Core Express), "region" (Regional) Route and the "new" (Emerging) railway line. Among them, the "Core Express" train speed is 125 miles (201 kilometers) to 250 miles (402 km) or even higher, "regional" route of the train speed is 90 miles (145 km) to 125 miles, the "new" train the railway line up to 90 miles per hour.