[danny_codes]

The US is plenty dense for hsr. The population is highly concentrated on a few regions. For example, a single trunk line from Vancouver/Seattle/Portland/SF/LA/SD would cover, what, 40 million people?

A similar trunk from Boston through to Florida would cover another 100 million.

These are absolute no-brainers. Obviously people going from Boston to Miami may still choose to fly, but all the destinations point to point between will be much faster by rail.

The best time to start doing this was 50 years ago, but now is also a good time.