And neither is Spain, nor France, nor any other European country with a substantial high speed rail network. These networks are the product of decades of cross-

And neither is Spain, nor France, nor any other European country with a substantial high speed rail network. These networks are the product of decades of cross-party strategic investment in rail to combat the need for short-haul domestic air travel or a proliferation of tarmac across empty countryside to link population centres. The very fact that the US has failed to invest in rail in any meaningful way since the westward expansion suggests that it's not the european countries that are backward-ass or doofus. What's the experession - 'Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'?