[donquichotte]

I would love to see this project succeed, but it seems to me that a combination of European and Asian style hi-speed trains (TGV, ICE, Shinkansen etc) with massive tunnel projects like [1] are the way to go here.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

[satiani]

Yeah, that's fair, but no reason why we shouldn't do both. Unfortunately the US government is not gonna make that happen any time soon.