"In California alone it is estimated that 160,000 construction jobs could be created just to build those two high speed rail corridors."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

The project will develop 13 corridors between heavily populated areas, but only the ones in California and Florida will be truly high speed because,says Amtrak's Steve Kulm, those states will be the only ones to build tracks exclusively for high speed trains.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15