Proving yet again the only way passenger rail (high speed or otherwise) can survive is through direct interference in the market by the government.
Excellent observation!
Right you are. Afterall, the government won’t attain the statistics it seeks if it allows air travel to expand with demand.
By keeping air travel in a cage, they’ll get the convenience and cost figures they need to bash it.
Proving yet again the only way passenger rail (high speed or otherwise) can survive is through direct interference in the market by the government.
That could be said about any mode of transportation in our industrialized society.
If not for direct government involvement with our transportation infrastructure, we'd still be traveling along deeply rutted mud roads in horse drawn wagons.
Why do you think our Founders wisely authorized congress to fund "post roads", a term that has also included all railroads since 1838?