> And without stops, you can get from say, Fort Sumner, NM (in the 48th most rural county in the US[0]) to Albequerque, NM in less than an hour. Fort Sumner ha

> And without stops, you can get from say, Fort Sumner, NM (in the 48th most rural county in the US[0]) to Albequerque, NM in less than an hour. Fort Sumner has less than 1000 people, the whole county is at 1,680. That sounds like about the least productive use of funds. Japan has high speed rail trains that could transport the entire town, with room to spare, in one go. It's a huge gamble to build it in the hopes people move to Fort Sumner and use it.