• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    9 months ago

    Both Japan and France have great high speed rail systems, but they are on par with a built it California High Speed Rail, maybe with connections to Nevada and Arizona. They may be national networks, but the size in the USA would put them more at the size of an individual state.

    The scale of HSR required to take a trip like shown in the video would need to be on a system the scale of China’s system, not Japan or France.

    And note that I didn’t say that high speed rail in the USA is bad, just that it probably wouldn’t be one full network; there would likely be gaps in coverage.