It suggests new US investment in high speed rail, as a cleaner alternative to automobile and air traffic. Gavin Newsom, who announced in his State of the State address Tuesday that he was going to scale back a massive planned high speed rail project. Yet there isn't any true high speed rail in all of North America. Trump, in fact, used to complain about the lack of fast trains in the US on the campaign trail in 2016 he would use the lack of high speed rail to tell audiences the US was losing to China. "We have the worst transportation system and train system," he said in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , in April of 2016.

Source: CNN February 16, 2019 13:28 UTC