The Ashes

There’s something in the works for the United States, something that Europe and the East have embraced for years: A functioning, fluid and impressive infrastructure that can support the yearning swarm of Americans who wish desperately to travel across an unfathomably enormous country.

Our fantasy is that we can just pick up, look ourselves in the mirror, and strike out towards work on a well-tended, seamless and efficient transportation system that can connect the teeming nodes of our United States. Mr. Obama’s plan involves in a thoughtfully lubricated network of high-speed transportation stations, which, when summoned together, could produce a buzzing productivity that’s startlingly familiar to our friends in that gleaming, unique island nation of Japan.

Mr. Joe Biden, that affable, wise and chummy Vice President, did unmask some plans of the administration, showing a fantastic preliminary map of the proposed infrastructure that just might bring us to the twenty-first century.