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Interestingly, connecting smaller cities through High Speed Rail to bigger ones might just be the elusive solution to the depopulation of small town America. If
by pm90 6y ago
Interestingly, connecting smaller cities through High Speed Rail to bigger ones might just be the elusive solution to the depopulation of small town America. If people can continue to live where they grew up while being able to commute in decent times to the City with all its jobs, I wonder if people would continue to live in their hometowns and bring in much needed tax revenues.
- pyrale 6y agoThe issue with this is that the US simply don't have enough population density in their urban areas to make this convenient. Train is only convenient if you don't need to drive to the station beforehand.
- pm90 6y agoThere’s been some success with transit systems that have extensive parking lots to allow for a “park and train” scenario.