Sorry I'm on an iPhone
But...

>>146689

We already have acela
Boston > New York > Philadelphia > Baltimore > DC

and the Penn Corridor
Philadelphia > Lancaster > Harrisburg

We should connect New York With Chicago Via High Speed Rail...

>>146690

Problem is the MidWest is a Dump Exception Chicago

would easy Access to eastern seaboard make Midwest more attractive to companies?

But any way...
Extend the PA Corridor
Harrisburg > Pittsburgh > Columbus > Cincinnati > Indianapolis > Chicago

Now the West Coast!

California has explored the high rail option extensively

And has proposed
San Diego > Los Angeles > Bakerfield > Fresno > Modesto > Stockton > Scramento

w/ a Branch off
Fresno > San Jose > San Fransisco

But the Central Valley is a peice of shit and spending billions in an a region past repair resembling Detroit is a waste of taxpayer money

Ex. El Centro, Ca 30% Unemployment rate worst in the nation > Source : Time magazine

I'm on a itouch!! :D

Northwest International Corridor

Vancover > Seattle > Tacoma > Portland

posible extention

Portland > Salem > Eugune > Corvallis

is the Midwest and South Viable
and will NAFTA pressure continue for Trans Texas Corridor???

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chicago to denver to sacramento to emeryville, oh wait, thats the california zephyr. shits awesome.

If I was in charge I would designate the routes in red as high speed corridors.

Seattle > Portland

the Talgo trains are slow as fuck and need a replacement.

it won't happen

>>146718
HSR for Oklahoma City? Won't happen.

>>146692
high-speed rail passing by your town is always a good way to get people working

Current trend dictates people are moving away from urban centers, so connections to growing cities is essential for the future. Let's do it before it becomes a real problem.

Gah! You people are spending way too much! We haven't got the defense department's budget, this is more a proof-of-concept. Also, LA-Vegas would be a popular route for passenger train.

Constrution will be underway this during the first quarter of this year to connect inland empire with Las Vegas

This is a Private enterprise

I forget the name desert... Something

C'est la vie...

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>>146692

El Centro isn't in the Central Valley dumbass

>>146926
> implying anyone cares other than you, the unemployed guy who lives in El Centro, Central Valley

designated high speed corridors from Clintons DoT

>>147004
...which Obama has resurrected. Incidentally while he has put a couple billion into rail roads are getting something like 30 to 40 billion.
Also how do you get to the High-Speed Rail or what do you do once you depart? Most American cities & regions are woefully lacking in public transportation (inb4buses).
>>146690
>Acela
surely you jest sir? Max of 240km/h, but averages 160km/h and ordinarily does just 90-120km/h. High-Speed Rail starts at 200km/h. Its journey time is 7 hours for a 734km railway.
In China the 968km Wuhan–Guangzhou Railway has recently been upgraded to High-Speed operation with rolling stock averaging 350km/h, cutting the former journey time of 10 and a half hours down to 3 hours now. And this is just one of a whole host of projects in various stages of development.
So Acela is more like Fail-Speed Rail.

>>147011
>just one of a whole host of projects in various stages of development.

>>146772
>Current trend dictates people are moving away from urban centers,so connections to growing cities is essential for the future.
>>Current trend dictates people are moving away from urban centers
>so connections to growing cities is essential for the future.
>moving away from urban centers
>growing cities
My thinking might be a little fuzzy here but isn't a city urban? Maybe you mean suburban?
Anyway need to stop sprawl and consolidate.

this is probably /n/'s favorite map.
True each individual European country isn't the size of the USA, but taken as a whole...

>>147027

Taken as a whole, it's still smaller.

>>147047
Same.
And the USA has a major advantage: when European countries want to initiate cross-country High-Speed Rail they have all sorts of hassles working out standardized signals and fault prevention and et cetera and expanding into Eastern Europe will also pose problems of differing rail gauges.
No such problems for the USA in building High-Speed Rail across its vast land.

>>147061

Instead, we've got a lot of people who:

1. Just don't care.

or

2. Are actively opposed to rail.

>>146913
WHY DOES A HIGH SPEED RAIL GO TO VANCOUVER ISLAND?

Fuck that shit. If America had billions of dollars to spend on "High Speed Rail" for the white man, the better have enough to pay for 400 years of Slavery

>>147118
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_BC

>>147118

There's been talk of building a bridge to the island for decades. Sooner or later, it'll be built.

The ferries can't keep up forever.

>>147126
Brotip: black african sold other black africans to the whiteman into slavery way back when.

The dudes that got sold were prisoners of war when tribes battled.

Your own race sold it'self out.

stop blaming the whiteman. If anything I owe you some 2500fps .308 lead

>>147077
build anyway, they grow quiet once it is up and running

>>147027
Nice try, Eurofaggot.

Europe is way smaller than the US. Texas alone covers a huge chunk of Europe, and that's just one state.

>>147206
hey USAfag, europe is not only england-germany-france-italy, it's also russia, ukraina, bielorussia, greece, etc.

Europe is 10.400.000 km²
USA is 9.372.614 km²

then Europe is bigger than USA. then you are an ignorant fag

>>147206
lawl

newfag loser!

>>147206

WTF. Are all Amerikkans this dumb?

He was talking about western Europe, obviously. Goddamn you Europeans are fucking idiots.

>>147206

>>147217
Let me add though that anyone who thinks that America is bigger than Europe as a whole is an idiot, American or not.

>>147206
I argue everyday in /k/ to try and convince the Europeans that all Americans aren't stupid, and then you faggots...

>>147217

What? No. He said "Europe is way smaller than the US".

Western Europe is NOT Europe FFS. What, butthurt?

>>147222
actually rereading that, you are right. Sorry.

>>147206

lol, Americans.

>>147227

LOL Kiddies! Now counting Russia!

>>146913

>>147004
>>147011
The thing thats really bizarre about this map is why isn't the 'Chicago Hub' 'South Central' and Florida High-Speed Railways connected to the main North-East-Corridor/East Coast/Gulf Coast group?

>>147295
All of the high speed rail networks will be connected together by normal speed rail, so it's not that big a deal. Maybe the money that has been set aside isn't enough to connect all of the networks together?

>>146737
>implying Seattle would know what to do with a rail system

Seattle's public transit system is the most retarded thing on the west coast. And that's counting Aloha, OR.

Huntington to Philadelphia is needed

los angeles to phoenix.
connect the 2 largest metropolitan areas in the west usa