On: The White House's Vision for High Speed Rail

[onreact-com]

When you take a look at the map you only can think: This can't be all of it. Some areas have no high speed rail at all and the areas that have are often isolated from each other.

In Germany we have high speed rail all over the place, in France it's similar. It has been there for years. Japan is best at building high speed railway systems.

[hughprime → onreact-com]

Germany and Japan are tiny, though. Hell, Japan is virtually one-dimensional, which makes it a great place for building rail lines.

[warfangle → onreact-com]

If we can retrofit the foundries of the rustbelt to build this stuff, we might be able to give Japan a run for its money.

Maybe.

If we actually do it, instead of hemming and hawing about it.