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brooklynite

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1. What do "corporations" have to do with it?

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2019, 12:28 PM

May 2019

Setting aside the Government's unwillingness to invest in ANY infrastructure, the big obstacles to high speed rail are:

- Lack of property for HSR right of way (you can't re-purpose the NEC or other existing rail lines)

- Long distances between major cities (you'll never have HSR between Chicago and the west coast)

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High Speed Rail. U.S. comes in Last [View all] tomhagen May 2019 OP

What do "corporations" have to do with it? brooklynite May 2019 #1

It has more to do with the US Dept of Transportation than anything else. cab67 May 2019 #2

I recall posting about this last year and hearing the same tired arguments. GoneOffShore May 2019 #4

It's not a tired argument. cab67 May 2019 #5

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2019 #3