Obama praised the high speed train - Which states !

Obama praised the high speed train - Which states ! - After insisting on the creation of jobs the day before the U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama traveled Thursday to Florida to meet with Americans and discuss a plan for development of lines of high speed trains.

Now in his visit by a public meeting in Tampa in the west of this State which has often proved critical on the U.S. electoral map, Obama has the last week in Ohio found the accents of his campaign to tout reforms he wants to implement.

Using the same slogan, mascot of 2008 "Yes we can" (Yes we can), Mr. Obama acknowledged that changing attitudes in Washington was difficult to deal "crushing burden" of partisan wrangling, but he and his government "were elected to do what is difficult."

During his stop in Florida, Obama, accompanied by Vice-President Joe Biden was also boast investment to give the kickoff of the construction of a network of high speed trains, emblematic of his promise revive large infrastructure projects.

"There is no reason that Europe and China have the fastest trains as we can build them here in the United States," said Mr. Obama was in Tampa, which is planned construction of a high speed line to Orlando, 130 miles east, then to Miami.

The president, who said Thursday that "the employment must be our primary focus in 2010, while unemployment remains stuck at a historically high 10% had discussed in April the launch of an ambitious upgrading of railway equipment in the United States, who contribute according to the White House to create or preserve tens of thousands of jobs.

Very extensive, the country has seen the car and the plane, leaving its train system which is now outdated and inefficient. But the congestion of airports, traffic congestion, rising oil prices and the fight against global warming appears to give another chance to railways.

Last year, Mr. Obama had cited France and Spain as examples of successful high-speed trains, in announcing the allocation of eight billion dollars to give the launch of these projects, which final cost will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The federal grant funds to 31 of 50 states with the aim of ultimately creating "13 major areas" of high-speed or improve the existing roads to allow trains to run faster, "said the White House.

In these eight billion dollars from the stimulus package of 787 billion promulgated there nearly a year, which will add five billion spread over several years federal budget.

Among the potential areas also include Florida, New England and California who will receive up to $ 2.25 billion to launch a project of high speed trains between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a distance of 600 km.

The American plan also includes improving the Boston-Washington line, single line theoretically "high speed" currently in use in the United States. But the average does not exceed 132 km / h between the federal capital and New York. Obama praised the high speed train - Which states !