U.S. High Speed Rail vs. the World -- International City Pair Twins for the USA's Top 10!

High Speed Rail in the U.S. is often seen as an infrastructure fantasy dreamed up by train nerds, zoomers, and assorted blowhards of every stripe who are far too invested in the study abroad program they did when they were 20.
But HSR is only a pipe dream if you don't realize that basically every other high GDP-per-capita nation in the world that has large cities has already implemented high speed rail.
This video compares the 10 most promising HSR connections in the U.S. to already-built connections between similarly sized and similarly distant city pairs all over the world. Take a trip around the globe and start dreaming about what fast and frequent train service could do for the United States!

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Acela resources:
Amtrak site: https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
North Atlantic Rail project: https://northatlanticrail.org/

California High Speed Rail resources:
California High-Speed Rail Authority (state website): https://hsr.ca.gov/
CAHSR 2020 Business Plan: https://hsr.ca.gov/about/high-speed-r...
Build HSR California website: https://www.buildhsr.com/
Hanford Viaduct clip from "California High-Speed Rail Construction Update - Summer 2021":    • California High-Speed Rail Constructi...  

Texas Central resources:
Website: https://www.texascentral.com/
Project Overview: https://www.texascentral.com/project/

Travel times and frequencies -data sources
Google Flights: https://www.google.com/travel/flights
Google Maps typical car travel times: https://www.google.com/maps
RENFE AVE booking (Spain): https://www.renfe.com/es/en
Taiwan High Speed Rail booking: https://en.thsrc.com.tw/
Trenitalia Frecciarossa booking: https://www.trenitalia.com/en/purchas...
Italo booking: https://biglietti.italotreno.it/Booki...
Eurostar (incl London to Brussels): https://www.eurostar.com/us-en
Travel China Guide (China Railway): https://www.travelchinaguide.com/chin...
Deutsche Bahn Intercity Express (ICE) Train booking (Germany): https://www.bahn.com/en
JR Central (Central Japan Railway) September 2021 timetable: https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/in...
KTX Trains (South Korea HSR): https://rail.ninja/route/seoul-to-busan

Video credits:
Los Angeles: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-fo...
San Francisco: Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-fo...

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