That's why it works in Japan--when you have three times the population of California packed into less land mass than that state--the population density makes such trains viable. That's why between Tokyo and Osaka, the fastest Nozomi Shinkansen trains (it takes about 2.5 hours two travel between the two cities) have around 40 trains per day per direction. Unfortunately, outside of the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and Boston, there are very few places where high-speed rail is financially viable in the USA.
Which is exactly why it doesn’t work here. Even in the NE corridor there are too many variables to do that does not fit a train. The car is a far more efficient means of transportation to make it feasible to ride trains.
High sped rail was nixed in FLa. Gov. Scott,best Gov. we have had since Leroy Collins, has turned metro Charlie Crists’ 3.6 billion dollar deficit into a 900 million dollar surplus in three years! Libs can’t be too happy about that one.