> China simply does not have to deal with with unions, labour laws, land ownership and such. I don’t think we want to live in such system.
Japan is a democracy that has all three, and yet they managed to build a HSR system. France has a very good HSR system as well.
> No, it won’t. There will be scheduled stops, weather, slow sections, accidents.
The entire point of the US being suited for HSR is that it is so sparsely settled in the center of the country that you don't need frequent stops, or you can get away with just having every 2nd/3rd train stop at a specific city - with 30min of spacing between the trains, that's still 1h/1.5h interval for "flyover states". And a single train carries up to 1.000 passengers, replacing 4-5 planes.
> I used to take Cologne to Utrecht for 3 months once a week return travel. Only once I arrived in both directions on time.
Please don't assume that the shit our politicians did with the DB network is valid for HSR in general.
Japan is a democracy that has all three, and yet they managed to build a HSR system. France has a very good HSR system as well.
> No, it won’t. There will be scheduled stops, weather, slow sections, accidents.
The entire point of the US being suited for HSR is that it is so sparsely settled in the center of the country that you don't need frequent stops, or you can get away with just having every 2nd/3rd train stop at a specific city - with 30min of spacing between the trains, that's still 1h/1.5h interval for "flyover states". And a single train carries up to 1.000 passengers, replacing 4-5 planes.
> I used to take Cologne to Utrecht for 3 months once a week return travel. Only once I arrived in both directions on time.
Please don't assume that the shit our politicians did with the DB network is valid for HSR in general.