Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel

Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by adventured on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#26936608)

> Second, hundreds of billions of dollars doesn't get you much train in the US. California tried to build a high speed rail route between SF and LA.

It does, just not in hyper regressive California.

You could build a full high-speed rail network between Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio for $100-$150 billion.

You just can't build much of anything in California, period, that's the issue. It's a collapsing state in most metrics that matter for quality of life (and has been for a long time), even the venture capitalists can't abandon the state fast enough. As their capital flees, so goes what remains of California (tech). As taxes go far higher this decade, the flight will get worse, Texas and Florida will keep extracting immense value out of California and New York.

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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by devilbunny on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:17PM (#26946765)

You could, but really, what would HSR in Texas get you? None of those has especially good local transit networks to connect to. Houston and Dallas are famously huge sprawls. If you're talking about downtown to downtown, there's already luxury bus service (Vonlane).

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