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You are right! The question is how to allocate the limited funding between the modes and how to make the funding pot bigger or depending on your political persuasion how to reduce the funding required for all modes. High speed rail will become a reality in North America but probably not to the same extent as in Europe. I believe that Amtrak has 60% of the intercity in the NEC corridor now which is approximately double it was several years ago. High speed or even higher speed rail will succeed where the distance is short and congestion is high. Congestion will increase on the interstates around urban areas and between certain urban areas until the only alternative will be higher speed rail because air and road travel will be to time consuming at any price. The critics are right that rail will never take over air for the long haul but I disagree with respect to distances up to 500 miles. There are many city pairs that are less than 500 miles apart.
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