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[quote user="al-in-chgo"] re: "[B]ut building high speed rail because the Europeans and Japanese have done so is akin to adopting the budget of the family down the street irrespective of whether it meets your needs."  Why are YOU allowed to make facile analogies based on the individual nuclear family when you are so insistent I can't analyze like agents by relating one nation's HSR system to another's?    --   a.s. [/quote] You have missed my point.  You appear to be looking at other countries for a solution that will work in the U.S. without analyzing the problem, i.e. where is high speed rail a good fit.  And how will we pay for it.  As I stated in my post, the first question is whether the U.S. should build high speed rail, i.e. what problem will it solve better than any alternative.  The second question is whether we can afford it, which again no one posting to this forum, at least, has answered in detail.  If the answers to these questions is yes, then it would be appropriate to look at what other countries have done and determine whether their solutions or modificatons would be a good fit here. It is a matter of timing.
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