There isn't anything in the article about the "product-market fit" of California's speed rail, which I'm not familiar with: who and what are the use cases for t

There isn't anything in the article about the "product-market fit" of California's speed rail, which I'm not familiar with: who and what are the use cases for the rail? In Spain, with 2000 miles worth and another 1200 under construction (making it second only to China in total length[1]), a few of the lines goals were to enable high speed daily commutes from way outside the city limits. It works, at least to some extent, with people from cities up to 150 miles from Madrid commuting in and out daily in 30 - 50 min. Same happens in Japan, afaik. This really opens up densely populated cities with scarce/expensive housing, reducing inflationary pressures that often threaten to damage the local economy. To me improving the effective housing radius of large metro areas is the crucial ROI any government should be pursuing, be it with rail, hyperloop... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lines#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lin...