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I guess the answer is to sell high speed rail as having benefit as military project like the interstate highway was.
Like we can have a million soldiers moved from east coast to west coast or vice versa or the borders in less than 6 hours type of thing,
That's not even remotely realistic. It takes a freight train about 5-7 days to travel from coast to coast. It takes a team driving a big rig about 3 days to make the same trip. The reason airplanes make it in hours is because they get to fly over that pesky thing thst slows down trains called mountains
Thanks for the reply. For the record I'm talking about exaggerating the tactical utility (or even outright lying) of highspeed rail so normal people can benefit, in a shit post at work to distract myself.