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[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦
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Yeah, the D.C.-Bmore-Philly-NYC-Boston corridor is notorious for the tumbleweeds blowing forlornly down empty main streets at high noon, because of low population. /s
C'mon, that tired, old trope is so busted. Obviously, we build HSR where the people are/want to go, and not where the people aren't/don't want to go. The Northeast, the Great Lakes region, the West Coast, the East Coast, the South—all of these regions have the population density for a HSR network.
Much of the Desert Southwest, the Great Plains, the Great Basin, Alaska—we don't have to criss-cross them with HSR routes to make the map look balanced.