> High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits? When people make this statements is usually because they forget the cost of bu

> High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits? When people make this statements is usually because they forget the cost of building and maintaining roads and highways (that is payed by all taxpayers, even if they don't use the car), the actual cost of the land occupied by paved roads and parking (almost 50% in most cities), the deaths by traffic accidents, the deaths caused by the pollution, etc... Another thing that people use to forget is that low cost flights, the main competitor for high speed train, will be less and less competitive when the fuel prices will rise again. Taking cars out of the road is always a good investment. > If high-speed rail doesn’t work in Japan and Europe, how can it work in the United States? This article uses one fallacy after the other. Some have been answered by others; but no one who has put a foot in France, and specially in Japan, would say that High Speed train doesn't work there.