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Re:Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair (2017) by marcinzm on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:13AM (#21107138)
>- a country wide network of high speed railroads in a country larger than the US

That's more of a factor of population density and distribution than anything else. There's few places in the US where high speed rail makes sense compared to airplanes.

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Re:Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair (2017) by Animats on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:05PM (#21108993)
China is building high speed rail even where it doesn't "make sense", as part of a national policy to tie the country together. Here's a current map.[1] That's comparable to having high speed rail to every major city east of the Mississippi, plus a line out to the West Coast.

[1] https://www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/train/high-speed...

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