Nothing really objectionable
in this article, but I do think the focus on high speed trains hides the fact that while high speed rail would be great, "fast enough rail" would also be really great and that most places don't have anything resembling that. 186 MPH top speed trains are awesome, and 105 MPH or even 90 MPH average speed trains would, in many places, be pretty damn awesome too. Obviously given my policy biases I'm not going to complain if we spend some money on truly super SUPERTRAINS, but if I ran the world I'd spend the equivalent money on fast enough inter-city trains in more places and on improving intra-city transit.
