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I am of the opinion that any HSR expansion in America would have to be well thought out, preferrably with a 20 or 30 year plan. For starters we should build HSR between metropolitan areas of 5 million. This would include a Philadelphia-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago line, a Dallas-Houston line, a Tampa/St. Pete-Orlando-Miami line, a LA to San Francisco line, and a New York City-Toronto-Detroit-Chicago line. These would probably serve almost half of the nation's population with some sort of HSR. Secondly, we should build HSR lines between metropolitan areas of 2 million, such as a Jacksonville to Orlando line, a New Orleans to Houston line, a St. Louis to Chicago line, a Minneapolis/St. Paul to Chicago line, a Cincinnati-Cleveland line, a Atlanta-Jacksonville line, a Atlanta to New Orleans line, and a Portland-Seattle-Vancouver line. Eventually we should build HSR lines between as many metropolitan areas of 1 million or so, such as a Indianapolis-Louisville-Nashville-Atlanta line, a Atlanta-Charlotte-Greensboro-Raleigh-Richmond-DC line, a Monreal-New York City line, a St. Louis-Kansas City line, a Dallas-Kansas City or St. Louis line, a St. Louis-Memphis-New Orleans line, a Jacksonville-Raleigh line, a New Orleans to Jacksonville line, and possibly a Phoenix-LA line. With these lines we would be serving over 80 percent of American citizens.... and just about every state east of the Mississippi and over half of the states west of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies. Its been my opinion that we do have enough density east of the Mississippi River, and in the direct states west of the Mississippi River, plus Texas and the eastern half of Oklahoma. We also have enough density south of San Francisco in California and north of Portland in the Pacific Northwest.... I will agree there isn't much density in the states west of those directly bordering the Mississippi River to the west coast....in the Rockies and on the Great Plains.... The only exception is the Denver area, and its a long ways from Kansas City....... There would be two lines on the west coast, south of San Francisco and north of Portland. There would be a box east of the Rockies, Philly-Chicago-Dallas/Houston, Atlanta-DC.... Two lines to Chicago from the east coast, two lines to Florida from the northeast, DC-Atlanta-Jacksonville, DC-Jacksonville directly, and two lines thru the south, New Orleans-Atlanta, New Orleans-Jacksonville.... There would be a branch to Minneapolis, a branch to Montreal, a direct route from Chicago to Florida thru Atlanta, and a line thru Ohio....possibly connecting to Lousiville's line..... One can offer more lines, but I am of the opinion these lines would be sufficient. Mileage estimate is less than 10,000 miles..... At a conservative rural estimate of $20 million a mile, we are looking at a $200 billion project..... $200 billion divided by 20 years is $10 billion a year..... A one cent national sales tax on a $7 trillion GNP, is $70 billion a year..... Chicken feed.....really....... So its not really the costs that is keeping it from being built, its only a matter of will power.....choosing to do so.........Its also not a matter of new technology, the technology already exists and can be purchased off the shelf..... Plus a one cent sales tax won't break anyone's bank.........
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