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I am using current Florida numbers! In fact, Florida put in a 25% fudge factor into their plans. Four companies have bid, and all of them have put in a smaller bid than Florida had planned. I shall stick with $9 million per mile for Jet Train 150 mph unelectrified track. Of course, Florida is planning to build track alongside existing track (CSX wants a 25 feet buffer but this is not really necessary), and alongside already existing highways (whether in the median or outside, the property has already been bought). <br /> <br />Connecting the largest cities with metropolitan populations of 5 million, and then finishing the the network to cities with metropolitan areas of over 1 million would only be around 25,000 miles of new track, NATIONWIDE! The fifty states add that many miles of new highways every ten years NATIONWIDE! The money is there, it is only a matter of priority. I like the sound of the word moratorium, we would not miss highway and airport construction much until this high speed rail network is built. Then we wouldn't need to build so many new highways. Priorities indeed. <br /> <br />However, I will agree with you that most of America is not familiar riding trains anymore. But I have a feeling they will get used to riding fast trains, when their cars doors are blown off by a high speed train alongside the interstate. <br /> <br />If you recheck the federal highway spending, it is spent building new highways, or rebuilding old highways. Federal dollars do not go to repaving projects.... <br /> <br />As for airports, most of the fedeal money goes to rebuild runways, reconfigure runways, and build new terminals and parking garages. Yes, no new airports are on the drawing boards, but every major airport has plans for new terminals and parking garages, the key word is major. O'Hare airport alone wants to spend up to $7 billion..... <br /> <br />Yes, we could achieve speeds of 100 mph for much less, but in reality most of America thought the trains went that fast already. They used too.... <br /> <br />
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