Environmental impact studies Private property rights Infrastructure upkeep A public already suffering from inflation fatigue Should I go on?

Go home. Stop grifting off of gullible progressives. Better still…go to China.

China's rail sysyem is a joke and a massive debt issue for them. It doesnt make sense for mass adoption for the US. If we can price it competitively in the Northeast, maybe the Texas Triangle and LA to Vegas, maybe there, otherwise it doesnt work for US.

they also don't have human rights...

Go live in China.

Gee Marianne it’s really easy to compare us to an authoritarian regime that can build things by fiat and uses slave labor, displaces people from their homes and land when theirs no respect for property rights! Are you suggesting we be more like the CCP? Not a good look!

It's annoying you tell us things we already know. You never give us a step by step proposal on what you would do about it and how you would make it happen.

The problem we face with high-speed trains is the land and building materials… what is the carbon footprint 👣 for acquiring the materials and building the infrastructure? Then what source of energy will fuel the train?

San Francisco to LA would have been a good test. But the cost just kept going up and up (and up and up)...and up and up ....that they stopped building it, and even if they did build it, to recover those costs it would be price prohibitive to a vast majority of Californians.