The free market is the best way to determine if there is a real need for high speed rail.
I agree!
So let's build the high-speed rail infrastructure and give commuters a free market choice!!!
As long as private investors are "on board" with this idea, they will get built. If not, and gov't builds the infrastructure, it will be just more of "Other People's Money" flushed down the toilet.
You pay for the high speed rail out of your own pocket, then it’s a free market choice - to have subsidy pay for the development is nowhere NEAR “free market”.