Have never understood why earthquake and typhoon prone Japan has been able to implement bullet trains and continued improvements throughout the system and the US hasn’t managed to at least implement one along the eastern seaboard or NY to Chicago...hell they just need to plow right down the middle of I-80 for NY to Chicago (or any major interstate for that matter) no further eminent domain issues to consider.
I don’t live in NY or Chicago, so I’ve no idea if a bullet train would be beneficial there-but I do live in Texas-and we have a rather nice highway system that functions very well for traffic outside of the city limits of the major cities-unless you are trying to leave Austin-where you will be mired in traffic for no apparent reason for at least 10 miles after leaving the city limits...
We need a bullet train even less than Cali does-just a waste of money in either state-both have plenty of well-designed highways and open space to travel, unlike some of the more crowded northern states...
Because the Japanese have been willing to spend trillions in government funds to build them. No more. No less.
Japan has extremely high population densities; and their cities are very much verticle. Texas; not so much.
It’s not that hard to figure out