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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by m_mueller on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:43PM (#14680059)
US has about the same population density as Switzerland in multiple areas that are at least as large: LA, Bay area and especially Philadelphia-DC-NYC-Boston.

So.. how does size exactly stop the US from having the to-date most efficient mass transport? I'm not talking LA-NYC, noone is gonna do that until someone builds vacuum tubes. First you need good local and regional travel.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by allendoerfer on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:59PM (#14680387)
Switzerland also has to build tunnels, because of the Alps. I am not an expert on US geography, but there seem to be places with many people and much easier terrain to build rails on.
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