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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I'm generally in favor of that except its timing is weird. Eugene to San Francisco should also be phase 1. It seems more interested in connecting a lot of places to somewhere first rather than making sure that when things connect they go where people want them to. It's very clear phase 1 is entirely focused on making every region get a piece, which I get, but at the same time, the draw of HSR is connecting regions.

Like, yeah Seattle-Portland would be nice, it would get used, but it's a 3 hour drive. The killer feature that gets the PNW on the high speed rail is going to California.

No coast to coast until phase 3, but phase 2 connects Denver to Albuquerque, Oklahoma City to Tulsa, and Toronto to Syracuse all disconnected to anything more significant at that time.