Bullet Trains In the Midwest! Chicago's Role As a Once And Future (High Speed Rail) Hub

Today we're tacking high speed rail again, but this time we're going to the Midwest/Great Lakes region, where the network gets complex. Chicago will be ground zero for our network, but we're going to analyze connections to an astounding number of cities, including:

Milwaukee, Madison, and Minneapolis/St. Paul
Des Moines and Omaha
St. Louis and Kansas City
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus (with consideration for Louisville)
Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, and Pittsburgh (with consideration for Youngstown)
Grand Rapids, Lansing, Detroit, London (Fake), Hamilton, and Toronto (with consideration for Kitchener, South Bend, and Ann Arbor)

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Alon Levy's blog has excellent writing and analysis on high speed rail: https://pedestrianobservations.com/20...

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Other CityNerd Videos referenced:
Extending Acela:    • U.S. High Speed Rail: What's Next? An...  
Mexico City-Queretaro HSR:    • High Speed Rail vs. Car vs Bus vs Air...  
Key Stations for HSR:    • The 10 Key Stations for High Speed Ra...  
Toronto- Montreal HSR:    • High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car: Cana...  
Dallas-Houston HSR    • High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car: Texa...  
Los Angeles-San Francisco HSR    • High Speed Rail vs. Air: California E...  
HSR US-International Comparisons:    • U.S. High Speed Rail vs. the World --...  
Top US City Pairs for HSR:    • Top 10 Places to Build High Speed Rai...  
High Speed Rail playlist:    • High Speed Rail  

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Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Alfred Twu map
https://sites.google.com/site/califor...
Alon Levy map
https://pedestrianobservations.com/20...
Illinois High Speed Rail: https://www.idothsr.org/
https://www.clevescene.com/news/cleve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf...

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Image Credits:
Lloyd, James T. Lloyd's American railroad map. [New York, 1861] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gm70005368/
Chicago skyline Video by Bhargava Marripati from Pixabay
Chicago skyline (thumbnail) By Yuchien.ning - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
High speed Shenzhen train (thumbnail) By LN9267 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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