Will high speed rail bypass the North Country?

Will the new high speed rail network proposed as part of the stimulus package bypass the North Country?

Check out this map of the US DOT’s “high speed rail corridor designations.” Instead of running a route north from New York City to Montreal — a route that would pass through the Champlain Valley — the plan calls for a dog-leg to Boston and then a route through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont.