EasyBakes has got it right, the massive amount of people looking for work made it easy to build the highway system.
It's a chicken and egg problem isnt it? It looks like out in the midwest, you might not have the pop density needed, and state governors are reapportioning the money for HSR for bridge and road improvements because of that. But the demand I think is there. If Callifornia can prosper with their LA-SF line and the NE can build something similar, you might see HSR take off.
I think what's more important is to focus on local rail lines. I.e. - NJ Transit is TERRIBLE!!! I mean come on, we're talking about the biggest city in the country having regional train lines that take an hour to get into Penn station when driving at the right hours can take 30 min?
Originally posted by: Easy Bakes
This is a big can of worms to open.
It might work in the north east were you have the population densitys and # of passengers to make it work.
every were else except maby Chicago the places were people live and were they work are not close enough to make mass transit work.
high speed rail from big city to big city across america is a pipe dream. we just cannot afford to build it.
this isnt the 40s any more were you had masses of unemployed willing to work for next to nothing building the hiways and bridges between these citys.
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