Sweet spot for high speed rail is generally considered two cities 300-500 miles apart.
Sure. But you could improve commute times significantly with intra-urban commuter rail even before you’re looking at big inter-metro HSR. All these mid-sized suburbs strung out along the freeways would benefit enormously from park-and-ride depots that linked to a metro line that doesn’t need to fight traffic to get into downtown.
Sure. But you could improve commute times significantly with intra-urban commuter rail even before you’re looking at big inter-metro HSR. All these mid-sized suburbs strung out along the freeways would benefit enormously from park-and-ride depots that linked to a metro line that doesn’t need to fight traffic to get into downtown.