Parallel Lies (2001)
“We—all of us—stand on this platform, Pennsylvania Station’s track seven, about to embark on a journey made possible by a new technology that could revolutionize train travel both in the United States and abroad, for decades to come. I’m proud to say that Northern Union owns patents on the GPS gyro-stabilizing mechanism in the new F-A-S-T Track system, and that this technology, which allows high-speed trains to run on existing track, is, and will remain, uniquely American. But at the same time, ...I must tip my hat to our French consultants and manufacturers, Vitesse, as well as to the hundreds of Japanese designers who conceived of, and carried out, the dream of electric high-speed train travel decades ago.” Goheen’s voice reverberated into the chilly cement bunker in the bowels of Penn Station, furious that at the last minute the rail station manager had decided against letting his speech be delivered in the central concourse upstairs, where it belonged. The media, the mayor, the senator and her aides, the New York secretary of transportation, and a host of investors all shivered, pretending to look toward the podium with interest.MoreLess
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