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Re:Two-Thirds of Americans Would Utilize High-Speed Rail If ... by ghaff on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:43PM (#11655709)
Oh, there have been train fans for a very long time. And IMO rail is a comfortable way to travel for certain distances--especially given what a pain airports can be these days. But HSR is really expensive to build and distances and geography in the US make it hard to justify.
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Re:Two-Thirds of Americans Would Utilize High-Speed Rail If ... by gozur88 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:58PM (#11656144)
It may be hard to justify a national high speed rail network, but the coasts easily have enough population density to make it work on a regional basis.

The big problem with rail in the US, at this point, is you'd have to build out an enormous number of track miles to make the system actually work for people who wanted to use it, and that's going to cost a lot of money and displace a lot of people.

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