hey Moonbeam - shut it down and use the money for something the people want.
In their sycophantic desire to ape Western Europe in all things, US Leftists never did acknowledge that American cities are simply built differently than European cities. American cities have open space and are designed with the car in mind. With very few exceptions, public transport sucks. The climate in the US is also far more extreme both being far hotter/more humid than Europe as well as far colder in places. You really don’t want to be outside walking around and carrying bags in the South in July or in Minneapolis from January til May for example.
So what the hell are you going to do when you reach the outskirts of Dallas on high speed rail? Walk? LOL, no. Take the bus which is infrequent, inconvenient and often full of riff raff? People will fly in and rent a car or drive instead of that every time. That goes for just about every other city in America too.