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  I have not put the numbers to shipping UPS style stuff on HSR, primarily because I don't have access to good cost information.  However, based on the published estimated numbers for the California HSR, if the incremental pricing reflected the true cost of HSR, I doubt that UPS or any similar carrier could afford to ship on it. Last weekend I drove from Austin to San Antonio.  I-35 was chockers.  How nice it would have been to be able to go on a train.  Unfortunately, there is only one train a day between Austin and San Antonio.  It is the notorious late running Texas Eagle.  The U.S. would be better off if the passenger rail advocacy community urged planners and lawmakers to implement frequent, quick, economical, comfortable, and dependable passenger rapid rail in high density corridors, where there is a reasonable market for it, instead of harping about a super expensive high speed rail system that would be used by relatively few people.   We need affordable, workable solutions to our transportation problems.  We don't need a system that will break the piggy bank just to say that we are keeping up with other countries that have different needs that require individual solutions.
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