I completely agree with you in the abstract, and would happily never fly cross country again, but I'm worried Amtrak's map is a sign that want to do middling in

I completely agree with you in the abstract, and would happily never fly cross country again, but I'm worried Amtrak's map is a sign that want to do middling incremental improvements everywhere that don't reach that inflection point. See https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/20/streaming-high-speed-rail-crayoning/ https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/20/streaming-high... for a much less exciting map, but one for which u have more confidence Amtrak could actually pull it off. I rather they do the crazy fun cross country routes after that. America needs to demonstrate it's serious about urbanism before I take any cross country lines crayoning seriously.