Comment Comment by BurningFrog Everyone would love a high speed train going where they travel.They will never, for good reason, be built for most routes.Because they're very expensive, both to build and operate, so they're only sustainable between large cities at a mediums distances apart.China, with maybe 10x the population density of the US, has a huge number of such routes. The US does not.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop... parent BurningFrog 5 years ago
They will never, for good reason, be built for most routes.
Because they're very expensive, both to build and operate, so they're only sustainable between large cities at a mediums distances apart.
China, with maybe 10x the population density of the US, has a huge number of such routes. The US does not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...