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everyone loves to point at china as a model for an american nationwide high speed rail network but the chinese economy runs on a huge migratory working population that the us just doesn’t have
the trains are nice tho & super on time in big stations like shanghai hongqiao they literally don’t let u onto the platform until like 3 min before departure bc another entire train is boarding every 3 min. insane scale of raw people movement
to be clear i’m like 100% in favor of hsr along certain corridors like in the northeast and maybe sf to la but the “nationwide us hsr map” pic that everyone’s getting all cutesy about is both infeasible and also unjustifiable sorry
chicken and the egg
a massive migratory worker population is not something you want lmao it fucking sucks to work hundreds of miles away from ur family and it’s totally indefensible to move to that model from a climate perspective
The US doesn’t have it anymore*
tru although idk if anywhere in the us was ever moving such a large percentage of population such long distances at such a high frequency
Land rights is also a huge issue! Americans hate eminent domain but it's unclear where you put the tracks without it. China obviously doesn't have this problem
yup a ton of reasons why it’s infeasible! but just wanted to point out china had a huge motivation for making it happen in the first place
It's probably worth mentioning that this is how we built the railroads in the US in the first place, too - migratory Chinese workershttps://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-chinese-immigrants …
Now do France 
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