• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Except in most of the (non-New England) US. San Antonio to Dallas by car is 4-5 hours. By train it’s 10-11 because it has to constantly pull over for the freight trains that own the tracks. The US only has about 100 miles of HSR for the whole country.

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      3 months ago

      I think they meant it more in a “high speed rail would work better in these situations if we had it” rather than “we totally have that infrastructure in place let’s use it”. That was my read anyway. Plus, my understanding is that what we consider HSR here barely even qualifies as such in other parts of the world.