How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails

I voted for the bullet train in college, because I thought it would have been great to take it home on breaks, rather than driving across the whole state. Now, I still support it, so perhaps my grandchildren can use it to visit me when they go to college.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33139983

This headline accomplishes the peculiar feat of being both the typical journalistic pun headline that has likely been popular for generations, and being near clickbait for people (me) who thought a bullet train in California derailed.

There is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.

Amtrak Acela?

Yep

> There is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.

The Acela is barely high-speed for around 10% of the route length. Route which it has to share with other trains of varying speeds. There's no real high speed rail in the US, even though there are many opportunities for such routes.

How about step one? It was a horrible idea.

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