Missouri High Speed Rail: Mission Impossible? | Part III

In part one of this three-part series we looked at the state’s infrastructure and decided to build a high speed rail line between Kansas City and St. Louis. In part two, we looked at operating the line and concluded that high speed rail could effectively compete with airlines. Now let’s finish our HSR adventure.

The next question about HSR in Missouri:

How many temporary and permanent jobs would an HSR line create?

{HSR construction, operation and maintenance would create temporary and permanent jobs}

Based on actual numbers in Europe, estimated numbers from the California high-speed rail project, and projected numbers for next generation Acela service, construction of a Missouri line would create at least 20,000 full-time construction jobs annually over the ten-year construction term of the dedicated high speed track.