I sketched alignments (very direct ones) and assumed average speed of 140mph, slightly higher than the Tohoku Shinkansen.
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Of these four options, only Boston to NYC is really viable/necessary. The other three are more vanity/tourist routes.
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That is--you build the Boston-NYC route first, it pays off, and then becomes a way to finance the other routes.
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NYC- Albany - Buffalo imo. Plenty of western New Yorkers plane commute to NYC or Boston
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viable! but outside Greater New England, so outside my scope of analysis
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greater New England without the BOS-WAS metro corridor and it's feeder routes will be lacking imo
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debatable imo...but I also assume that there are train nerds in NYC, DC, etc, who will do this for their turf
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HSR will be competing with planes, look at the air traffic on the east coast. It's all in that corridor
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At bit advanced for Moncton. I believe they are still in awe of their escalator.
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