Citing goals such as traffic reduction, cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions, and independence from foreign oil, Governor Jim Doyle met with Vice President Joe Biden this week to push the whole high-speed rail project (which is part of this). The meeting was with eight other governors with similar agendas.

Specifically, Doyle’s push is for the use of national stimulus funds on the first phase of the high-speed project. It would join Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago in a network of high tech hover monorails passenger trains traveling at speeds exceeding the speed of thought up to 110 mph.

According to the AP, Vice Pres. Biden told the governors before him to “think boldly” when making their train plans. Presumably, with language like that, Biden’s a big dork-faced trekkie.

No word on when (or if) that passenger rail will be making up into these here parts.