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Originally Posted by doglover99
Well they are getting it done and people want it over there whereas in America it's all up in the air and you got people hating on rail for stupid tribal political reasons (thinking that only commies ride it or whatever). So I'll go with the Brits here, sorry. British people are reliable in getting large transit projects done, like Crossrail and the HS1/Chunnel. I got not faith in whoever is building or doing the HSR in America because the politics are against rail in this country. The whole thing could be knocked off the tracks any given year by any given hillbilly president.
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In the UK, the longest time included in the posted slides was London to Newcastle, at 2 hours and 11 minutes (approximately 2.2 hours)
To travel the 2774 miles between NYC and LA in 2.2 hours, the train would have to average 1260 mph, faster than the world famous Concorde jet could fly.
Distances and elapse travel times matter. Jets works far better at getting you there in a reasonable amount of time over these large distances than trains.