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66. High speed rail service in US not economically feasible when compared with auto and air travel

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Sure, with current safety standards for trains and with the way that track maintenance is treated (as opposed to road maintenance).

When you get a clean bullet train (that isn't overweight because of excessive regulations) people will stop driving as much between cities.

I would love to see the comparative analysis to see the factors taken into account to conclude that high speed rail not economically competitive with auto/air.

There are some good points here, but that shorthand they use makes a lot of the post a guessing game. If you wrote this, it might be really great if you fleshed it out so that other people could understand it easily.

Sorry, I didn't write the blog post, I just submitted it here.

I love reading the bh annual report. I do not love reading some comparatively ham fisted summary of it. Boo.

Berkshire Hathaway 2010