Follow up to April 16, 2009, Vision of High-Speed Rail in America, from the WSJ: Spain’s Bullet Train Changes Nation — and Fast – “The growth of the Alta Velocidad Española, or AVE, is having a profound effect on life in Spain, where many people have been fiercely attached to their home regions and reluctant to live or even travel elsewhere. Those centuries-old habits are starting to change as Spain stitches its regions together with a €100 billion ($130 billion) system of 218-mile-an-hour bullet trains.”