Shadow791d ago

Does this explain why there are no bullet trains in the USA?

https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1976033/does-this-explain-why-there-are-no-bullet-trains-in-the-usa

Show threadjdr
China is bigger and has a great high-speed rail network.
Apr 12 at 2:17amWeb
Show threadI_am_10_squirrels1d ago

It’s less about size and more about population density.

Japan is 338 people per square kilometer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan

China is 147 people per square kilometer total en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

The US is 36 people per square kilometer www.census.gov/data/…/density-data-text.html

The US could build long distance high speed rail like Japan and China, but the ridership level would be rock bottom due to the low population density.

Demographics of Japan - Wikipedia

Show threadjdr1d ago
I think it would be fine to just build the stations in big cities. Nobody is demanding high speed rail across Alaska.
Show threadVoltarion23h ago
Do the densly populated areas should be first to be connected im the US.
Show threadatan21h ago

Those statistics are misleading. China’s population is very unevenly distributed between the east and west, but Western China is still serviced by high-speed railway.

The 1786km Lanzhou–Urumqi HSR serves three Western Chinese provinces: Gansu (57.7 people per sq km), Qinghai (8.2) and Xinjiang (15.8).