Life at the Speed of Rail Competition, Van Alen Institute

With the progressive increase of the High Speed Rail network in USA, more and more scars will appear in our landscape and more and more barriers and frontiers will be created in our  territory, cutting the fluidity of use and circulation in rural and urban areas. Crossing this HSR dedicated corridors will be a more acute problem and it will change the way we definitely circulate and the way we physically use and connect places: on foot, by bicycle, motorbike, car or bus. HSR railway will divide places that, till now, we always understood as one infinite continuous space…
As science and teleportation investigation advance, this proposal pretends to produce critical matter that will inform the infrastructure debate in this important issue of crossing the HSR lines and which ways we have to make that possible.