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While I agree with you on just about everything, I do have my bones to pick over 300 to 500 miles. We need a high speed rail network that connects the four largest metropolitan areas east of the Rockies. The northeast (New York City/Philadelphia), the midwest (Chicago), Florida (Atlanta/Jacksonville and further south), and Texas (Dallas.Houston). With Cleveland and Detroit metropolitan areas connected, all of the cities with metropolitan populations of over 5 million would be connected. Los Angeles and San Francisco/Oakland, the other major metropolitan areas of over 5 million could be connected in the west with high speed rail too. The distance to be upgraded to high speed rail, some 4,000 to 5,000 miles, depending upon the route. Building a high speed train from Houston to Dallas, Cincinnati to Cleveland, Indianapolis to Chicago, St. Louis to Chicago, Atlanta thru Jacksonville and on down to Orlando and Miami WON'T WORK UNLESS PASSENGERS CAN GO FURTHER..... People DO travel further, from Dallas to New York City, from Chicago to Orlando, from Houston to Cleveland, etc., etc. While we can start building high speed rail up to 300 to 500 miles in distance, we should rightly expect that some national network east of the Rockies is in the final plans.... I have ridden west of Denver, and after going through the 37 tunnels on the California Zephyr, I do not see high speed rail ever being built west of Denver, the largest metropolitan area in the Rockies....any transcontinental high speed train would have to go through Denver..... Amtrak should terminate its transcontinental trains today, and concentrate on providing better service west of the Sierras and east of the Rockies.....
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