The people riding filthy subways or waiting for infrequent commuter rail aren't gonna be helped by high-speed rail https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/913659675631079424 …
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A high-speed rail network w/o underlying conventional rail network is gonna work out a lot like airports do: you'll need a car on both ends
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More to the point tho: most trips taken by most people on most days are not of the sort of distance that makes sense for HSR
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Local and regional travel = the vast majority of travel, regardless of mode (guess where most US rail ridership is concentrated?)
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Easiest way I can describe this problem is: imagine building the Interstate Highway System but every off-ramp leads to dirt paths
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Road network before a high-speed road network Rail network before a high-speed rail network
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