Yea, I for one would welcome fast, comfortable, ubiquitous trains. Also, it would be nice if America could really embrace ideas like work from home or Results Only Work Environment in jobs where that makes sense. In my current job, there's no reason I couldn't do 98% of my work from home, except that management is scared that they'd lose control, which is really ridiculous on many levels. This is a new era and some organizations are managing people using techniques from 50 or more years ago. Techniques that have been scientifically shown to be a bad idea in certain jobs.