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High Speed Passenger Rail: How fast is fast enough?

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True high speed will never be achieved safely here on the ground in the USA. You need to copy and follow the European and Japanese models of construction that has been done for years safely.If for a moment one should think of a instant strip of bare dirt wider than the entire railroad needs to be with all the old bridges blown down and replaced between Wash DC and Boston Ma there is no problem with land buying.If you should build a new NEC that has no conflicts with anything, man or beast unless at necessary station stops and properly signal it, there would not be any problem.I say that the old Rail on ballast on the ground model of the current NEC is obselete. We need to erase it and build a elevated and isolated/protected HST corridor where practical (Tunneling where must) on land that is already set aside.Those old bridges can be replaced. We are already replacing Interstate Bridges that seem to drop every year and taking lives as they fall.It will be expensive. It will take time. It will eat revenue. It will change life all along the rails both sides for several hundred miles. But imagine for a moment a true HST corridor second to none in the USA and is a model for future expansion across the Nation.Then again a tank of gas or a airline ticket will do us just fine, wont it.Without a dream to achieve, HST might as well be a academic discussion. And long after all of us discussion participants have passed on, the rails continue to rust and the NEC continues to beg Congress every year for just enough to get by until the next bill or choo choo needs buying.
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