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I'm trying my best to see things from both side's point of view. Maybe it has to do with Supply and Demand? Because Europe and Asia invest substantially more i

I'm trying my best to see things from both side's point of view. Maybe it has to do with Supply and Demand? Because Europe and Asia invest substantially more in their public transit networks, there's more of a market, more companies that build the networks, more competition, more experience, and more tried and true cheaper methods. While in the USA, we've got less public transit, less experience building it, a smaller market for building it, less companies that construct networks, and less competition between them, thus the cost is higher due to it being a specialty that few companies understand.

JumpCrisscross 14y ago
The hypothesised condition could be easily aleviated by hiring those non-US contractors who are performing so well overseas. Bombardier's bid for the high-speed Amtrak line between New York and Washington, D.C. being messed up by U.S. regulators [1], however, points to political factors. [1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/07/amtraks-high-speed-ambitions http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/07/amtraks-high...