"Amtrak Ridership Through the Roof: Time for Some New Ideas in US Train Travel"

Here's a post on the jaunted.com site presenting novel ideas for Amtrak. The main points:

1. Lay down a new system of tracks across the country for passenger trains only
2. Start making double-wide trains
3. Trains have to depart and arrive on time - try the Taiwanese method of boarding trains that never stop

All fine ideas to me, anything to improve efficiency and increase use of rail travel I'm for. I like the idea of boarding a train that never stops, this would be a neat engineering feat and radically reduce travel times. Anything that makes a commute time shorter I am all for.