The sheer folly of this proposal, as with many others, such as single payer medical insurance is that it is absurd to compare the USA with other smaller countries. We are #3 in land mass, and #3 in population in the world. These things cannot scale up!! It’s total folly!
One of the criticisms I always here about high speed rail in N.A. Is that there is too much land to cover between major cities.
But there is so much potential to revidilize small cities and towns and to take pressure off the major urban sprawl of larger cities.
Given the size of the U.S. and the need to provide high-speed transport that is competitive with air travel in terms of price and time, we advise the use of modern #Maglev systems (#Transrapid or #SCM) rather than HSR. #HSR is too slow, prone to wear and expensive to operate.