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The
idea that high-speed trains could come through Wake Forest and other North
Carolina towns strung along the CSX railroad line is viewed by many as a
pipedream, but it does keep chugging along.
Monday,
Oct. 22, for $100 you can join business, industry, state and federal officials
at a high-speed rail summit in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing
Arts to learn about the plans and why the time is auspicious for those trains.
Meanwhile,
transportation officials in Virginia continue to work on environmental impact
statements. The date for public hearings on the project has slipped and slid,
but it is now tentatively in December of 2009.
If
you want to learn more about the status of high-speed rail and the summit, go
to http://www.sehsr.org.
Currently,
the historic rail line – what is now CSX in Wake Forest was originally the
first railroad in North Carolina, the Raleigh & Gaston – is used only for
freight trains serving a number of businesses north of town.
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