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USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Drop in the bucket, I’m curious how much it would take to make most of the US/NA traversable by high speed rail

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Depends on what you mean by most.

      • most of the population is quite achievable. Send a little time at https://www.ushsr.com/
      • most of the geography, trillions, and we couldn’t afford to keep it operating

      I really think that confusing this is a common mistake. People claim high speed rail is impossible in the US because we’re big (and ignoring China, eu), but we have plenty of cities, and most of them are clustered. High speed rail is great for cities within a few hundred miles of each other. We got those, and that’s most of the population

      It’s specious to take scenarios high speed rail doesn’t do well at and claiming that it means it can’t work. Let’s apply a little intelligence here’d and use the right technology for the right scenario