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Northern Lights Express: Planned Higher-Speed-Rail Amtrak line from Minneapolis to Duluth (hexbear.net)
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https://www.dot.state.mn.us/nlx/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Lights_Express

Top Speed: 90mph (~144 km/h)

Avg. Speed: 60mph (~96 km/h)

Projected Yearly Ridership: 700k

A one-way trip will take about 2.5 hours, roughly the same as driving.

The project has received $194.7M from Minnesota, meeting the 20% local funding required for federal grants

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Damn, they can only justify funds to set it up for a top speed of 90? Shit, hopefully that gets rectified eventually.

It won't, this continent is cursed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And yet that's still faster than the only other line in the state (79 mph, 127 km/h)

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