U.S. High Speed Rail: What's Next? Analyzing Extensions and Expansions, and What Makes Sense

The clock is ticking, and we're still all wondering why the USA has no high speed rail. True that Acela in the northeast has at least a thin claim to being actual high-speed rail -- but what might ridership look like if the service operated like the services in leading countries do? And how would ridership dynamics change if we started expanding the network to places like Richmond, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and Atlanta?

Let me know down in the comments if you want to see this video's approach expanded to Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago, or other potential corridors across North America.

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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:
Induced Demand:    • Induced Demand & Roadway Widening: Ev...  
High Speed Rail playlist:    • High Speed Rail  

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Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...
https://www.fra.dot.gov/necfuture/pdf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
https://www.railpassengers.org/site/a...
https://northatlanticrail.org/

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Image Credits:
Philadelphia By Mefman00 - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Korean HSR Video by Train_Video from Pixabay
HSR window view Video by Alejandro Quintanar: https://www.pexels.com/video/train-tr...
Acela thumbnail By Peter Van den Bossche from Mechelen, Belgium - Electric locomotive in Boston south station, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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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