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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by vacri on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:38PM (#14679754)
That's a hell of a lot of infrastructure just to link two end-points at opposite ends of the continent. Any train going that route is not going to be an express, and more stops significantly affect average speed.
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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by bennettfeely on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:52AM (#14680969)
Getting downvoted for bringing up completely reasonable points?

And who is gonna pay for this magical high speed railroad that never breaks down and is never delayed?

High speed rail in California is costing around $90 million per mile. A perfectly straight line from NYC-SF is 2,572 miles. That's nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars. All to allow costal elites to increase their travel time? Sure.

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