Again, you're making up a strawman. The economics DO work for rail, no matter how much you disagree, when you constrain things to the coasts. Yet we don't hav

Again, you're making up a strawman. The economics DO work for rail, no matter how much you disagree, when you constrain things to the coasts. Yet we don't have decent rail connecting the coastal cities. Canadian cities are generally farther apart than US cities, except for Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal. All the Canadian cities are just on the other side of the border, which is the longest undefended international border in the world. >The exceptions, like on the east coast where points are closer, actually do have better rail. Not great Not great is a severe understatement. >I really don't see what's so difficult to understand. I don't either. San Diego, LA, and SanFran are not that far apart, and would be well served by a high speed rail like they have in Japan and China and Europe. Yet we don't have it. Same goes for the northeast corridor. These cities are no farther apart than the cities served by HSR in these other countries.