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

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2019, 12:38 PM

May 2019

The earlier comment about right-of-way is a serious issue (and is a reason passenger rail has not been profitable beyond the Boston-DC corridor), but attempts to bring HSR even there met with a lot of USDT resistance based on concerns over safety.

That it's used safely in Europe and Japan (among other places) doesn't ever seem to register.

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