Alon Levy Interviewed by The Wall Street Journal

Transportation and Land Use Fellow Alon Levy was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the Transit Costs Project report, How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor:

WSJ: You proposed building near high-speed rail between Boston and Washington for $17 billion, less than a 10th of what some past plans have suggested. What are you doing differently, and why hasn’t this been done before?

LEVY: What I’m doing differently is integrating every aspect of infrastructure planning with operations planning and timetable planning. This approach was developed in Switzerland in the ’80s and ’90s to avoid the high cost of building high-speed lines in a mountainous country too small to justify the expense. The Swiss trains aren’t especially fast—they’re just very well-timed.

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