Okay, so maybe I'm a little dense, but, with all of these stops that they're talking about .. all of these places that they're going to tie together .. to get such great numbers of riders, how is that a high-speed train? The way I see it, they couldn't get up enough speed to make a difference between stops.
Good observation.
It's not really a high speed train. But proponents have been calling it that because it sounds good and draws more support. Its just typical politicians' smoke and mirrors.
One of the ideas they have been pushing is that America needs to move into the modern transportation era with high speed rail, like France, Japan, etc. Then they show photos of those superfast bullet trains. We are supposed to be embarrassed that other countries are so much more modern and progressive than America.
They gloss over the fact that some of the right of way they plan using for the Florida train is existing rail used by freight trains.