High-Speed Rail Plan Pushed For Pacific Northwest [Video]

The president of Microsoft said during a conference in Portland he hopes for high-speed rail to come to Oregon.

In an interview with KGW News, Brad Smith spoke with Laural Porter on Tuesday at the seventh annual Cascadia Innovation Corridor (CIC) conference and talked about high-speed rail acting as one solution to America’s affordable housing issue.

Discussing the struggle many Americans are having with finding economical housing, Smith said, “It’s interesting because at one level housing feels very local, but when you see the common problem up and down this corridor, you see the problems we share and then you even see common solutions like high-speed rail.”

“If we built it together, it would make it possible for people to, say, live further away from a job and that too would open the door to more affordable housing,” he added.