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Originally Posted by Crawford
That's fairly low density. Most of France is pretty empty for Western European standards.
New Jersey, much of which is empty or low density sprawl, has more than 4x the density.
But density isn't really the issue. It's whether you have specific corridors with a market for HSR.
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It could be low density outside of cities which would make HSR construction easier if that is the case. I am not familiar with France other than I simply checked those numbers. Cities in Europe seem more compact than American ones though, and again, that is based from my research and not experience.
There seems a bigger demand would be in order for Western Europe having 400 million people in area much smaller the country of the US and therefore are not comparable in making a case for HSR in the US and neither is China.