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I think high speed rail is great, but it doesn't seem to work well on routes longer then 3-500 miles, if for no other reason than the construction cost is too h
by Aloha 7y ago
I think high speed rail is great, but it doesn't seem to work well on routes longer then 3-500 miles, if for no other reason than the construction cost is too high.
- KptMarchewa 7y agoYet it works in China. The reason why it won't work is because flight is essentially subsidized - if you were to pay for all flight externalities, it would be way costlier than trains even on longer routes. Probably not on routes such as LA-NYC or tho.
- wiggler00m 7y agoYou can travel 1176.3 miles via high speed rail (shinkansen) in Japan (Hokkaido to Kyushu). 3 of the air routes that cover this journey are in the top 11 busiest domestic routes in the world (#3 Sapporo to Tokyo-Haneda;#4 Fukuoka to Tokyo-Haneda;#11 Tokyo-Haneda to Osaka-Itami). The highest ranking US domestic route is #30 (JFK-LAX), though by distance it's almost 3X (2827.2 miles).