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When I mention I support HSR in America, many in our country are under the delusion its gonna costs trillions, when in reality a 7,000 mile network would cost in the vicinity of 100 billion. For example, using China's numbers of $18.5 million per mile a 7,000 mile network of HSR would cost less than $130 billion. A 4,000 mile parralegram backbone HSR network which I proposed would cost $74 billion. Once this national backbone network is built, some of the states might actually look into linking to it. <br /> <br />The state of Texas DOT advocates a plan for the next half century with the $180 billion 4,000 mile Trans Texas Corridor. Three companies have already shown interest. You can read more about it at this web site: <br /> <br />http://www.dot.state.tx.us/ttc/ttc_home.htm <br /> <br />What's $74 billion in a national budget of $2.5 trillion? Peanuts! Just cutting federal highway funding for two years will pay for it.....which, by the way, I support a moratorium on federal highway spending for two years to build HSR. <br /> <br />
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