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No, they're all parking lots and highways. This gets built, and just like California Rail, it will be completely useless exept for a very few rich people, who will still drive to the station, take an uber from their stop to their job, uber back, train back, then drive back. You need actual basic public transportation, basic mixed income, and mixed zoning urbanism. A fucking high speed train isn't doing a thing to keep people out of cars if there's literally nothing else lmao.

@@tortellinifettuccine What makes you think that? A few of the things that you have said are incorrect. bullet train tickets are not for rich people... it won't be completely useless... there are not only highways and parking lots... and yes these cities are in perfect proximity to each other because they are the perfect distance away for a high-speed rail system to operate at its maximum efficiency in comparison to car travel and air travel. This project isn't meant for people to get out of their cars completely it's just to get from point A to point B faster.

Lmao, no, and especially not because of a corporation that wants to build high speed Rail in the worst possible place in the usa to build high speed Rail other than California. Build high speed Rail where the density is enough to service it. California high speed Rail even if it was done today, would get less than 3k yearly riders, nearly all of which would be driving to the station, likley taking an uber from their stop to get to their job, then another uber back to the station, then train back, then car back. Do you see how ridiculous it would be? Most people would still rather drive, and even if you didn't, absolutely nothing will be less car centric. All you've done is lower the amount of time a car is used on people's trips, but they're still mostly using cars. Also, this doesn't address the systematic issue in the US (well, there are many), specifically the commuter culture.

This is a very near sighted view. Let the visionaries and professionals do their job.

@@tortellinifettuccine actually dallas to houston is a very viable corridor its two HUGE cities to far to drive to short to fly with lots of flat land between them perfect enviorment to build japanese style HSR

@@IndustrialParrot2816 stop copy pasting the companies excuse for something they don't even plan on doing. That's not how you plan for high speed lines, it's hilarious to me that Americans don't even know this much. Both cities are not cities, they are parking lots and highways. No one wants to go there, no one needs to go there, no one is there. The density is too awful, the infustructure too poor, and the basic transportation to support hsr is non existent. That's why, you little silly goose. As much as Americans want, just throwing money at it won't make it work lmao.

@@tortellinifettuccineI live in Fort Worth and trust me we will use this rail like junkies use crack

take a look at the City Pair Halle(Saale) and Leipzig in Germany. The main Stations of those cities are only 20 miles apart and the population is only 250.000 and 620.000, but they get 4 trains per hour = 1 train every 15 minutes! half of those trains are express service!

Can't wait to take a first trip in it 🙂,

I'd love to know more about you that's only if you don't mind leaving me a reply

Rail companies typically own the property and rent it out to commercial companies. MTR in Hong Kong is a successful example of a company that is sustainable.

But it is a start, a footstep that would lead to a much larger growth in the future, Japan opened up it's first bullet line back on October 1, 1964. Today, Japan has one of the largest highspeed rail grids on earth. Godda start somewhere. Ofcourse the mighty United States of America should of had this decades ago but better late than never. Remember all the money the United States of America gave away in stimulus packages during the pandemic? That cost over 7 trillion dollars (gave awa)! The space shuttle program which cost over 200 billion dollars, well where's the space shuttle at now? Look at the billions of dollars given away to Ukraine so they can fight theri war, 800 billion dollars given to the military, billions of dollars put out every year to fix and improve our highways only to do it again year after year. A man mission to mars is pending, cost? 500 plus billion dollars to put some fool on mars and benefiting absolutely no one except for the fool going there. Now what was that you said about wasting money? I find it very difficult to believe that the mighty United States of America can't build highspeed rail for improvement of infrastructure and economic growth but has no problems with putting a man on the moon to jump around and pick up rocks at a cost of billions. Maybe I thought wrong about the United States being able to do anything the rest of the world can do and do it better. Oh well, Highspeed bullet trains and maglev super train technology, the new american dream but a reality in the far more advanced countries of the far east and Europe.

The distance between Dallas and Houston is around 240 miles apart though. Having a trial rail track between Dallas and Fort Worth will help show how fsst future trips can be.

Then dont think about it as HSR and just refer to it as regional rail between urban centers. It is most definitely not a waste of money in that sense. Cities around the world have intercity rail lines.

whaaa whaaa if it doesn't go 100 miles it must be a waste of money Just forget about how it can be scaled and this is a proof of fucking concept.

Not waste money. It step by step to expand it later after profits