[CORedneck]

When I was in Japan two years ago, one thing I was amazed with is their train system especially there bullet train (Shinkansen - 新幹線). Amtrak is a joke. One thing I would like to see besides a train system here in the USA is also special train cars where you can take a vehicle with you as well. I have family in Indiana and livere in Colorado. It would be nice to drive to Denver, put my car on the train and do an overnight train from Denver to Saint Louis or Indianapolis. Save mile on the car and in lieu of renting a car, have my own vehicle. It would be a nice to have the same thing going to California as well.

We waste money on special pet projects that makes some pressure group happy but the majority gets screwed.

[Raymann]

You have to understand that the United States is a very low density country. If we had the same population per square mile as the United Kingdom, we’d have over 1 billion people.

So we’re several times larger then most industrialized countries and we’re several times not as dense. So not only do we have to build longer and more tracks (or wire for high speed internet) but they’ll only accessible (and paid for) a much smaller percent of the population then Japan or France. The possible comparison is the Boston–Washington corridor but that’s about it. (And guess where is one of the few places where Amtrak is profitable?)