If America had high-speed rail would you ride it through the desert or the mountains just to enjoy the view and eat...

go a greater distance...

road trips are romanticized here in the US and it can take weeks to get across the country

Then you take the slower train, but seriously nobody is doing that.

High speed rail is perfect speed for viewing nature and getting where you want to go.
Plus you can sit there and read a book or browse the Internet when you want.

is there a country better suited for HSR travel?

but remember pearl harbor i guess jaja

fuccen retards

Yea by car, where you have the control of it and you can just stop at some place to visit/eat/sleep. In a train, it's not that romantic.

I’m sorry you have to see this brain-damaged retarded American.

Honestly there’s probably not a better country for high-speed rail than the US.
Because our cities are far enough apart that the train can get up to speed and stay there a while, but not so far that it’s more convenient to fly.

People need to realize we need backup travel for if oil prices skyrocket in an emergency too.

I took a train from Massachusetts to New Mexico. Spent a lot of it in the observation railcar. Very lovely country
We got stuck in the mountains in Colorado, near Veil, due to the switches freezing. Some passengers united and started going from one end of the train to the other trying to get people to sign a petition demanding that the engineer go back to Denver. I just pretended I didn't speak English.
It was exactly what I expected, beautiful country, weird fucking people.

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Good luck with that, you'll need to fight back the "car way of life" before.

someone might randomly shooting at the moving train for target practice, so I'll sit in the aisle.

We used to have trains for rich people here in the mountains, but the tracks have been torn out and now it's a bike loop

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Amtrak is already prohibitively expensive
who gives a shit if we have high speed rail?

>Some passengers united and started going from one end of the train to the other trying to get people to sign a petition demanding that the engineer go back to Denver. I

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we got the same here, old train line are converted in bicycle "Promenade". We call them RAVEL.

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And we got a lot of it.

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This is very nice, I wish they did this here too. We have many abandoned tracks but they aren't groomed or anything, they're mostly used by snowmobilers and ATV riders for hunting/trapping.

I drove between Boston and NYC and wondered why you had no high-speed train between these 2 cities for example. Instead of taking 4h and being stuck in the traffic jam, you could take less than 2 hours with the train, and be directly in the city centre.

interesting, we only have one like that. It has a long tunnel

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Good idea actually. Here old unused rail lines are overgrown with plants and hard to find actually. The government apparently hopes nature will just claim them so they don't have to pay someone to remove them.

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Amtrak has been trying to get HSR on that route for a while.

The basic problem is getting a shitload of municipalities to cooperate with signalling arrangements and land rights, and getting congress to actually fund amtrak.

Blame Connecticut.

>Boston and NYC
...that's literally the ONLY place in the US that has "high speed" rail....you can and should have taken that

Some old tracks are still there and use for tourism.

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wouldn't dare driving through it

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>the Acela counts as "high speed" by people standards

we get it
they transformed old rail tracks in belgium

>Honestly there’s probably not a better country for high-speed rail than the US.
high speed rail doesn't happen in federations, too much pass the buck

I just looked it all up and did sone math
The train takes 3.5 hours and the cheapest 1 way ticket is $136 after taxes
The current average price of fuel in Massachusetts is $2.92, the average mileage for vehicles in America is 24 miles per gallon, the trip is 215 miles, so that's about $20 in fuel. The drive takes 4-5 hours depending on traffic.

So, you would be paying $116 extra to save 30 minutes to an hour off of the drive.

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It has roughly the same duration than with a car, I would hardly call that "high speed".

...oops, it's $26 in gas, so $110 extra to save half of an hour to an hour

i like train trip.
in the train anytime i sleep without driving

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