[panick21_]

High speed rail is so so far away in the US.

There is so much low hanging fruit in the US its not even funny. If you want to invest money and get people in rail, start with proper S-Bahns and combine that with the historic rail network outside of the cities.

Add trams to your cities and proper bus service with priority lines and priority signaling.

And of course the absolutely brain dead land use and zoning policies in the US are the real issue even if you build public transit.

Worry about those things before dreaming up schemes of high speed trains.

That said the Great Lakes region high speed rail, combined with Canada would make a huge amount of sense.