Imagine the new residential and commercial opportunities (and taxes) along that rail as well. Oh well, will never happen as long as republicans are alive and voting.
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It would make less money doing the same amount of work, and in America we only want to generate value for the share holder.
This is doable, we just have to convince our leaders is bad for the environment, will hurt brown people, will get them filthy rich and also paint them fake gold and put Drumpfs name on each train
So yea, no,
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I don’t even care if we built high speed trains that go that fast in the US. I just wish our rail system was more extensive and prioritized passenger trains over freight trains, which they are required to by law but isn’t enforced.
I didn't even know that was an option, but don't want to get my expectations up.
The current Lake Shore Limited route is 1,543 km. Doing that in 2.5 hours requires an average speed of 617 km/hr. At TGV top speeds of 320 km/hr it is a 4.8 hour trip.
As far as I know, 600 km/hr requires the development of additional technology not in operational use in other countries.
I believe...
The US economy is based on spending as much possible as a consumer. Rather than focusing on infrastructure to improve livelihood, the aim is have endless construction and maintenance for as many people as possible. Everybody needs a car, or else you cannot safely travel(in the normal-ass suburbs where I grew up it was an hour walk to the grocery store, few pedestrian crossings for highways, and there plenty of sidewalks that simply ended due to gated communities or neighboring towns or villages that simply didn't to build some twords there edges). Each car will need to be taxed, registered, sold, bought, insured, fixed, fueled, towed, fined, accessorised, and finally scrapped and sold again in peices. If there was good public transportation, then less money would be changing hands, and the economy would look less impressive..
I don't think that was original reason, but I'm certain it's on the minds of modern economists now
Lot of people have car brain real bad in the US.
They would put in the airport hassle.