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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
I don't think anyone is suggesting building an HSR line from NYC to Los Angeles.
Birmingham has a population of 4 million or so, and London a population of about 14 million.
The first phase of the project is roughly equivalent of building an HSR line from New York City to Philadelphia. New York is 19 million, Philadelphia is 6 million. Birmingham is about 160km from London, Philadelphia is about 130km from New York.
Doesn't seem so crazy.
Ideally an equivilant project in the US would see an HSR corridor built from New York to Washington, with Phase 1 being NYC-Philly, 2A being Washington-Baltimore, and 2B being Baltimore-Philly.
No way that wouldn't be successful.
Amtrak is doing it's best with what it has right now on the corridor, but if it had $100 billion to sink into the corridor it could do wonders.
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of course, but otoh its not like absolutely nothing is going on. they are, or err, were?? doing a little something with upgrading the acela amtrak trains from balto-wash dc.
https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/p...fact-sheet.pdf