If you’ve been paying attention to the discussion of high-speed rail since Obama took office, you know that there’s been movement towards building more high-speed corridors to add to the current count of one (the Amtrak “Acela” train in the Northeast Corridor that runs between Boston and DC). ( In fact, Wired.com put together a feature on this a few months ago with pretty pictures of the proposed corridors, which you can check out here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/… )

It’s not explicitly mentioned in the Wired article, but there’s been talk for some time of a high-speed link between Boston and Montreal. I really like the idea of rail, and especially high-speed rail, since it helps get cars off the roads for long hauls (in many instances, along corridors like I-95 when a long car ride south means sitting in multiple metro regions’ traffic anyway). And if they could figure out a way to make it competitive with air travel,  that would be even better.