It depends on where you are. China is expanding their high speed rail network like crazy. 10,000km of line between 2007 (when it was created) and end of 2012.

It depends on where you are. China is expanding their high speed rail network like crazy. 10,000km of line between 2007 (when it was created) and end of 2012. So the question is not whether projects like this can happen, but rather whether politicians in the USA can be beaten into allowing them to happen there.