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I would love that. I personally love riding high speed rail. The problem is that it’s too damn expensive to build in the USA. The cost : benefit ratio just doesn’t pencil out.
Even the profitable Acela line barely qualifies as high speed rail because they can’t handle upgrading all the rail and dealing with legacy infrastructure issues.
It would be amazing if they could fix that and extend it down the coast to Miami. It would be amazing if they could build a high speed rail line from NY to SF. I would totally ride that. Unfortunately I just don’t think it’s ever going to happen.
I would love that. I personally love riding high speed rail. The problem is that it’s too damn expensive to build in the USA. The cost : benefit ratio just doesn’t pencil out.
Even the profitable Acela line barely qualifies as high speed rail because they can’t handle upgrading all the rail and dealing with legacy infrastructure issues.
It would be amazing if they could fix that and extend it down the coast to Miami. It would be amazing if they could build a high speed rail line from NY to SF. I would totally ride that. Unfortunately I just don’t think it’s ever going to happen.
The cost to benefit looks way better if you think long term. Especially with climate change on the horizon to compete with planes but emission free.
One of the major problems for upgrading lines is straitening the route, and people fight the emniment domain way harder than they do for roads.