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The Acela is only that slow because the rail infrastructure can't support the maximum speed of the train's rolling stock. The purchase of the rolling stock was
by vonmoltke 7y ago
The Acela is only that slow because the rail infrastructure can't support the maximum speed of the train's rolling stock. The purchase of the rolling stock was supposed to spur the redevelopment of the tracks, but that never happened.
- ghaff 7y agoMy comment was mostly in the vein of wondering what a "cheap" (relatively) not-really HSR could have looked like and the answer is probably "not fast enough to get from Emeryville to LA in a timeframe where people would really use it." And, of course, the rolling stock had various problems so I'm not sure what the theoretical top speed ended up being.