Why can’t America have bullet trains?

Because we’re addicted to cars and planes.

What happened to the HyperLoop? I thought Elon had the plan worked out for that project 10 years ago.

Because most of the railroads in the United States are privately owned. For the government to build new rail lines to operate a bullet train it would mean having to purchase land that is privately owned. That could cost tens of billions of dollars.

It's cheaper for Americans to fly.

Because there is too much waste and corruption in our Government

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Because most of the railroads in the United States are privately owned

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Plus Buffet has some good lobbyists.

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Look at CA’s attempt at high speed rail.

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You have to assume some of the mess in California is due to the people that manage the state, also including their firefighting and forestry management and homeless programs.

I don't see Newsom and Harris's people waking up and being really efficient one day, and then building a railroad very well.

We’ll be taking flying drones to work and stupid commie trash will still be dreaming about trains. What year is it?

Because outside of the northeast corridor, AMTRAK doesn’t own their own tracks. So, passenger trains legally have right of way over freight, but don’t in practice. The costs to upgrade the tracks (and more so, the crossings) to accommodate high speed traffic are massive. The freight lines have no incentive, and AMTRAK has no money.

Lack of track. Bullet trains would need their own exclusive track in the NE corridor with all of the other traffic

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Why do we need a 100 billion dollar non-stop train between DC and Boston in the first place?

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Why do we need airports? Or interstate highways?