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On the subject of HSR: NIMBY factor - Using freeway medians where possible eliminates the NIMBY factor on those stretches. Short haul vs long haul HSR - If your focus is passenger only HSR, then you are correct that long HSR makes no sense. If your focus is freight based HSR, then there are opportunities for all corridors, short, medium, and long. A freight based HSR system can carry megatons more than air freight, and can carry those megatons four or five times as fast as the current freight rail system. Therein lies the niche market: The costs of carrying megatons more of freight would be lower via HSR than my air freight, while what is at best a 5 day trip across the country via the hottest current TOFC becomes a two day trip via HSR. The founding fathers would go all giddy over a nationwide HSR system.
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