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.
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).