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Not a bad idea. If you have read some of my previous posts on other threads, I would like to start building a new high speed rail grid between cities of five million in metropolitan populations such as: Detroit-Chicago, Dallas-Houston, Orlando/Tampa-Miami, Los Angeles-San Francisco, Philadelphia-Cleveland, etc. Then in the second phase attempt to link these with cities of two million in metropolitan populations such as; New York City-Montreal, New York City-Toronto, Orlando-Jacksonville-Atlanta-Charlotte-Raleigh-Washingon DC, Cleveland-Detroit, Chicago-Milwaukeee-Minneapolis, Chicago-St.Louis-Kansas City-Denver, Houston-New Orleans-Jacksonville, Dallas-Kansas City, Dallas-Austin/San Antonio -Houston, Chicago-Indianapolis-Louisville-Nashville-Atlanta, Portland-Seattle-Vancouver, Los Angeles-San Diego-Phoenix. Most of the rest of the major cities would not be far from one of these lines, probably at most a two hour bus ride. Many cities of less than two million in metropolitan populations would be on these lines that I haven't mention. There would be a direct link between the northeast to the midwest, the midwest to Texas, Texas to the southeast, and the midwest to the southeast. And yes, this would not happen overnight, but over a period of ten to twenty years. The problem I see with gradually upgrading the current railroad tracks, other than the northeast corridor, is that these tracks belong to private freight railroads. There will always be conflicts with them as far as slots are concerned, and in my opinion running a passenger train at 100 or 120 mph is not fast enough. And if we go faster there will probably be a safety problem with the different speeds of passenger versus freight. Frankly, the Europeans are satisfied with state of the art, already defined technology TGV going 186 mph. We could save some funds by going without electricity with the JetTrain's 150 mph. But gradually upgrading railroad track up to 90 mph, and then again to 120 mph, and then again to 150 mph is a three step process which will probably cost more in the long run than stepping ups to 150 mph to begin with....
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