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>Railway systems in Japan and France (taken as example in the article) are high quality and last long as well.

Not only this but the engineering challenges overcome in France and especially Japan are much more than we would likely face here in the continental US. Japan has rail service between islands under the seafloor in one of the most seismically active areas on earth. I have a hard time imagining us in the US matching that engineering achievement without huge cost, debate, litigation.