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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change
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Amtrak is still a thing for passenger trains. It's just that it's slower than flying and just as expensive.
https://www.amtrak.com
Flew my wife to L.A. for her birthday, easy peasy. Couple of hours by plane.
Amtrak?
Fastest is 26 hours and 13 minutes for $230 coach tickets. Private room for $580.
It's not just slower than flying, it's slower than driving in most cases.
Acela is useful. We have one intercity rail line that is useful, has high ridership, is profitable, people choose to use, arguably faster than driving or flying, demand far outstrips supply. also the fastest but it’s not really fast enough to be called “high speed”
My parents once bought a private room on Amtrak. When they were shown to it, they literally thought it was a closet to store their bags not their room.