Is U.S. Up to Speed?
While the “Quick Trip on (the) French TGV Has O.C. Panel Up to Speed” (March 18), the namesake article fails to state what it unknowingly implies: The United States is not up to speed on high-speed rail technology.
The 16-person Orange County panel took a 10-day “technology tour” of France and West Germany in order to pick a train . . . a tour that excluded the United States. The article failed to analyze why there was only a two-country technology tour, instead treating the public procurement of a multimillion-dollar train like a ride at Disneyland.
Can the United States produce such a train? If not, why? If not, should we try to? If not, how do we start?
ANDREW SCHMERL
San Clemente
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