There isn’t space on their “high speed” routes for proper high speed tracks. They could do it on other lines besides NE corridor but none of them are actually well traveled enough to warrant it. Other places which have good high speed rail either just seized land as needed (China) or have much more compact transportation routes between proper urban centers (Japan, France).
There isn’t space on their “high speed” routes for proper high speed tracks. They could do it on other lines besides NE corridor but none of them are actually well traveled enough to warrant it. Other places which have good high speed rail either just seized land as needed (China) or have much more compact transportation routes between proper urban centers (Japan, France).
They literally said new tracks, not existing tracks
The problem isn’t the tracks, it’s the right-of-way. The agency just doesn’t have the budget to acquire the necessary land.