Another difference between the Osaka-Tokyo train line and the Amtrak Capitol Corridor (I can't believe my fingers just typed that) is that it's rare for the Shinkansen to stop and just stand in a field for two hours, where it is not rare for the Sacramento train to do this at all
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“We need HSR! Good HSR! But, uh, not the one we’ve already got, because reasons.”
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We don't have high-speed rail in the United States.
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There's no demand for a bullet train in Texas, and if you try to build one there then they'll all be foaming at the mouth about Jade Helm and shmitah all over again.
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Right now the only part of the country where any demand for bullet trains exists, is the Acela corridor. If you want a shinkansen in California, you'd have to build an Acela first so they can see how inadequate it is.
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have planes stopped working
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HSR would be lovely but can we get functional regional and commuter rail too, electrifying and extending the lines we already have. Will serve 10x the number of passengers. Celebrate that Caltrain will soon be entering the 1970s!
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New York-New Haven: 116 km, 4 stops, 1:42 at $35 or 2:06 at $17.75 Amsterdam-Eindhoven: 119 km, 4 stops, 1:19 at €20.50 every 10 minutes
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Harsh but probably effective. (BTW as long as you avoid rush hour you can get from DC into Manhattan via bus almost as quickly as by train and for a fraction of the cost, which seems iffy)
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Totally agree on high speed rail, and also that the Sacramento Northern was awesome. But it was actually slower than the Capitol Corridor is today. Their fastest train — the Comet — took 2:48 from Sacramento to SF in 1939. Capitol Corridor + Amtrak’s bus connection takes 2:10.
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(I haven’t found a schedule for the Southern Pacific service SF-Sacramento, which followed the route of today’s Capitol. That would have been the fastest trip SF-Sacramento then. The fact that we haven’t made that faster is embarrassing.)
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