President Barack Obama announced a plan on April 17 for high-speed rail in many areas of the United States, and the plan includes the Vancouver to Eugene, OR corridor.
However, unless there's a house-cleaning of the paper-shufflers at the Canadian Border Services Agency very soon, these trains will only get as far as Bellingham. Amtrak put in a request about this to CBSA about this two years ago, and they just ignored it.
Here's a story from Ted Field of Global TV about their intention to hold up any increase in Seattle-Vancouver passenger train service for the forseeable future.
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