Two criticisms of the map: 1. A high speed line down the California coast is totally impractical. Mountains, granite and huge grade changes make for an expensi

Two criticisms of the map: 1. A high speed line down the California coast is totally impractical. Mountains, granite and huge grade changes make for an expensive proposition. 2. The broken links in the midwest between the network in Texas/Oklahoma with that stemming from Chicago is silly. Their are mothballed Rights-of-Way there that are perfect alignments for HSR. Outside that, I'm still very much interested in a way to make HSR work in a number of areas for the US.