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280vc:

Don’t build high-speed rail from SF to LA - create an American Autobahn instead.

Here’s how it could work:

Build another three lanes of the I-5 from LA to Sacramento, completely separated from the current lanes but within the existing right-of-way. No need for tunnels or extensive bridges to…

Love this thought by Rob Coneybeer. Given that it looks like a high speed train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco is all-but-dead (or won’t be done before I’m dead), an idea like this actually makes some sense. Which is exactly why it will never happen, sadly.

I wish more people in the US had experienced train travel, this would be a completely different story. The comfort and pleasure of traveling by train is such a radical contrast to the discomfort and inconvenience of the airlines. It’s a shame that it’s so hard to get practical infrastructure put together in the US in the face of misinformed public opinion.