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 Granted, you cannot just compare the US with Europe. In Europe, a distance of 500 miles is already a super long distance travel - in regular terms, long distances start with 60 miles...In Europe, we have a tradition of traveling by train, well to be honest, we weren´t even asked, but we now enjoy a tight network of trains that takes us virtually anywhere in Europe, all the way from Narvik in Norway down to doorsteps of Istanbul, where Asia starts. We could even go all the way to Beijing by train - takes only 11 days ... [:D] Air travel in a number of relations has become redundant, as travel time is even longer  - in any  case, it is more inconvenient, despite lower fares. The big issue for the US is, whether society is accepting rail travel as a viable and ecologically better form of transport than air travel and thus is willing to accept longer travel times and even subsidies for trains.  For that you need politicians with a long term vision - far beyond that 4 year term...
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