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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by tptacek on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:27PM (#14679132)
See downthread about Minneapolis-Chicago, which I do not think makes much sense:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679127

I don't dispute that there are pockets of the US that would be well-served by rail. Maybe SEA-PDX is one of them! Note, though, that neither Seattle nor Portland are in the top 10 economically most important US cities.

I'm not anti-train. I love HSR. I wish we had more of it. But I think there's a solid reason that we don't.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by rsync on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:57AM (#14680983)
"See downthread about Minneapolis-Chicago, which I do not think makes much sense"

MPLS-Chicago has never really resonated with me, but there are some straight north south lines that I think make a lot of sense ...

Duluth-MPLS-DesMoines-KCMO would make a lot of sense.

Cheyenne-FortCollins-Denver-ColoSprings-Pueblo ... that would make a lot of sense.

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