[KeplerBoy]

Oh, it's much bigger than just connecting Austria to northern Italy. That project is about connecting Germany (and Scandinavia) to Italy.

[alephnerd]

BUt that's my point. It's integrating two extremely dense regions with multiple large cities in between. Between the Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles, all you have is Fresno and Bakersfield.

That's it.

[KeplerBoy]

I agree, just wanted to point that out.

If the californian high speed railway would be the right thing to build, it'd have been built 60 years ago. Maybe it will be viable one day, but apparently it has not been so far.