Forget high-speed rail. The bill will improve some roadbeds and signal operations in areas across the country, but high-speed rail lines in North America (China, Japan, France and Germany have at least one line operational) are many years in the future.

When the money is divided up among the regions (see map in NY Times today), it will lead to improvements on some major corridors but not one 'bullet' train is envisioned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/20rail.html?th&emc=th