Nothing says we are the strongest country in the world like being afraid of anything that might take us into the 21st century. How does China and Europe have similar systems but Americans look for a myriad of reasons why it cannot be done.?

Why?

Yea build it

Personally, I would rather spend the money improving the national highway system and adding charging areas for the onslaught of EVs (both personal and freight) that is coming soon.

High speed pork delivery.

Pitch it as a way for the MIC to quickly move their products around the country. It will be built for over 20x the original estimate and 30 years in development.

How anyone can reflect on the past around 100 years of US government operations, then look at this and think "yeh, they got this" should scare the shit out of everyone.

That no one will ride after spending 100s of billions for environmental impact studies lining the pockets of DNC donors and then a couple more trillion in cost overruns that go into the union's pockets to donate to the DNC all coming out of the taxpayer's pocket, NO THANKS!

For it if: 1. Don’t grey out (make secondary)the NW & Mtn West direct routes east. 2. Mag lev powered by GeoTermal 3. Financed through special issue 100yr bonds

Just a play for $$$ that will end up with no train