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Looks like a wonderful thing. Let the private sector at it. Set them loose. Keep the government out of it. California has proven that government can't build a Lego set efficiently.
We already have the most efficient freight rail system in the world by a wide margin. This would do nothing for movement of goods, and high speed rail isn’t suited for freight
Nobody is taking a 24+ hour train ride when they can fly in 5. And there is no way that train ticket would be cheaper either.
No matter what's promised the average trip would be 2+ days. There's a million possible delays along the way.
None of this is possible. It’s mathematically possible but not realistically. Too many NIMBY people to overcome. It would cost roughly $2million per mile for initial construction and ridiculous maintenance costs. Freight cannot share the rail with high speed passenger service.
Every town along the way would want a station. The true cost of passenger train service is so high that ticket costs are prohibitive therefore it goes under, gets government subsidies, or just continues to downgrade until you’re back to slow speed service.
Our privately owned rail system is already one of the best in the world when it comes to freight, this would do nothing for that.
US already moves a higher proportion of freight by rail than most other countries—so much that it displaced passenger rail.
If it moves goods & people, no. On STL to Dallas Amtrak I was on, twice we had to move off tracks for almost an hour so long freight trains could pass. I asked why. They said freight has priority. Not ridden since
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