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If the Trust fund, state and local taxes and block grants were all the infrastructure needed, how do you account for the new infrastructure bill that had a lot of pork, including a "bridge to nowhere" connecting an Alaskan village to the airport. The point is, not counting the pork, there were still hundreds of billions necessary to fix bridges and roads, etc. What Amtrak is gets counted in the single billion. <br /> <br />The second point is that most of us have a consensus that HSR works best between two medium-distant cities in densely populated areas. This country can't build a New Tokkaido Line between DC and NY (or Boston), but we can't build any more Interstate 95's or New Jersey Turnpikes either. As with freight, HRS will become a reality when people realize how unbalanced the transportation network is and how NOW, and not during homesteading, it gets so very little help from any level of gov't.
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