High speed rail in the NE
 

I never understood why there is not a high speed rail system between Washington, D.C. and Boston, with stops in the important cities in between. The roads, the airspace and the airports in the NE are very congested. It could reduce significantly the number of cars and flights between those cities. I know it's very expensive, but it makes a lot of sense. It would make life easier to a lot of travelers. Other countries have it. Why not here?

I know it’s not Europe or Japan but there is the Acela that’s somewhat high speed. The northeast corridor is pretty curvy though.


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Other countries have a lot of stuff we dont.

Thank goodness.

Because millions of people don't want to sell their homes to the government, thousands of businesses don't want to relocate, and no one wants to spends hundreds of millions moving the congested urban infrastructure that has built up over the last century in order to lay the straight track lines that high speed rail needs.

Europe had the "luck" to have most of its urban centers bombed to oblivion right as mass transit technology exploded.

The state of California couldn’t afford to build high speed rail on agricultural land between Bakersfield and Merced due to land cost, tunneling cost, environmental protection laws, NIMBY obstruction, and political pay to play contracting, and you expect a better result in the most densely packed and expensive areas in the US?

You dreamer you. :D

Any proposal for high-speed rail that might compete with air travel would be immediately quashed by our powerful pilot unions. :p

SARCASTIC COMMENT OF THE DAY, if not week, month, year, decade, etc.

This.
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But I think in California it doesn't make much sense; San Francisco and LA are too far apart, and no big cities between them.
In the NE it's a different story. It is a necessity. Sooner or later they'll have to do it.

Who is "They" and how will "They" pay for it?