Shadow79Does this explain why there are no bullet trains in the USA?
jdrIt’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.
I think it would be fine to just build the stations in big cities. Nobody is demanding high speed rail across Alaska.