Here’s the problem in the USA: we already have a form of low-cost high-speed transportation—it’s called Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways. Since Southwest and JetBlue fly to airports closer to destinations (for example, Southwest uses Midway Airport in Chicago and Love Field in Dallas, both much closer to city centers), the so-called advantage of high-speed rail of downtown to downtown is quite low.
The point that rail fans, particularly Willie and other dim socialists, misses, is simply that No corporations have their offices downtown, anymore. Business travel is from the suburbs of one city to the suburbs of another. What is the point of traveling all the way downtown on a train, when you have to rent a car, if you could find a rental agency, and drive that much farther back out to the airport, 20 to 40 miles in most cases, where your sales appointment is?
Sorry Willie, doesn't compute.