High Speed Rail

Does Sup Forums support high speed rail for more of the U.S.A.?

Relatedly, since Donald Trump said he supports renewing and improving American infrastructure, how do you see him doing so with or without high speed rail?

I support the high speed rail being constructed in Texas from Dallas to Houston, which is 100% privately funded (will be the fastest HSR in the U.S.).

>portland to SF
>phoenix to san antonio
>houston to atlanta
>dallas to st louis
>vegas to chicago
>orlando to anything
literally why

Australian Green Party
>high speed rail, high speed rail
ok, we'll build this route
>you can't build there, there's an endangered frog only found here
what about this route?
>endangered fern
this route?
>sacred abo rock
this route?
>the same endangered frog we found at 50 different building sites
fuck it, no rail
>why can't we build high speed rail?

I was 100% on board with that until I saw they were getting Japanese trains
I still support it (because where the fuck else are they going to get bullet trains) but I hope something like this could lead to a revival of American transportation industry

With our airlines dying I think trains could end up being very important
Speaking of which, can anyone redpill me on airlines? Are they still viable and are being killed off by overregulation or something, or are they just not profitable enough?

We can't even do inner-city public transportation right except in a few cities and you want inter-city rail lol

We already have a massive freight rail network
Passenger rail between cities isn't that hard
We did it in the fucking 1880's

Well if we had rich white people in our inner cities I bet they would change pretty rapidly to have better transit options.

???
they would just buy cars

problem is all the rails are privately owned by freight companies like CSX, you cant just throw a bullet train them without severely impacting the existing train scheduling, and the rails are not banked properly for speeds exceeding like 50-80 mph