NBC Wonders: Can America 'Afford Not to' Spend Billions on High-Speed

Kyle Drennen
July 1st, 2011 4:43 PM
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams praised China's high-speed rail system and lamented that United States had not done the same: "China is rocketing ahead of the U.S. with high-speed rail. And it has a lot of people wondering how long we can keep chugging along the same old track." Touting the completion of a new rail line between Beijing and Shanghai, Williams proclaimed…