Wait, how is the UK spending £90 billion (120 billion in USD) to build a single 100-mile high-speed line from London to Birmingham, if you can build a massive network criss-crossing the US for $25 billion? Either that's an extreme underestimate and it's going to be more like $5 trillion, or most of the HS2 money is being spent on cocaine.
The US still have a lot of rail infrastructure from the gilded age and big monopolist eras, im assuming that they're just going to refurbish those lines for high speed rail. I have no idea how that's supposed to work though.
Close, there charging $25 billion for plans about how to best polish 100+ year old railroad tracks (that the state owns and will need to gift to Amtrak).
Wait, how is the UK spending £90 billion (120 billion in USD) to build a single 100-mile high-speed line from London to Birmingham, if you can build a massive network criss-crossing the US for $25 billion? Either that's an extreme underestimate and it's going to be more like $5 trillion, or most of the HS2 money is being spent on cocaine.
the key is "high speed" which Amtrak is not. UK has to build the infrastructure from scratch.
The US still have a lot of rail infrastructure from the gilded age and big monopolist eras, im assuming that they're just going to refurbish those lines for high speed rail. I have no idea how that's supposed to work though.
They didn't say anything about high speed homie. These are gonna be $1000/ticket luxury sleeping cars, not mass transit.
They're really going to spend 25 billion polishing the rust off of railroad from 1916 aren't they
Close, there charging $25 billion for plans about how to best polish 100+ year old railroad tracks (that the state owns and will need to gift to Amtrak).