> air travel pretty much superseded it and is doing so all over the world And it has the problem of a massive carbon footprint to go along with it. If we are

> air travel pretty much superseded it and is doing so all over the world And it has the problem of a massive carbon footprint to go along with it. If we are serious about combatting climate change, we need to find ways to move as people with as much throughput and convenience as airplanes today without burning as much fossil fuel. Given that electric commercial flight is a way off, high speed electric trains are an existing technology to achieve that.