High speed rail isn't that good for what you want. It will churn through too much infrastructure for too little value for point-to-point. What it is good at is

High speed rail isn't that good for what you want. It will churn through too much infrastructure for too little value for point-to-point. What it is good at is creating regions. Done correctly it can open up a lot of land and opportunities. (I don't know the specifics of this project however).