Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Rerouting the US: Reimagining a country for high-speed trains
In the US, the railroad distances between Boston and New York, and New
York and Washington, are approximately 350 km, and it takes about three and a half
hours for each leg by the fastest train service. This average speed of about
100 km/h is far slower than the high-speed train services of other countries,
like China, Japan, and France. Two centuries ago, the US had a railroad
coverage as long as the rest of the world combined. Today, the aforementioned
Eastern Corridor train services are the only ones that practically serve both
business and leisure passengers. All other busy megacities, like Los Angeles
and San Francisco, New York and Chicago, and Atlanta and Orlando, are mostly traveled
to either by environmentally unfriendly air or car. In the meantime, China,
whose land size is about the same as the US, has a nationwide high-speed railroad
network of nearly 50,000 km at a top speed of 300 km/h. So, what if America’s
busy destinations are connected by high-speed trains?
Read the article and learn how the US’s busy travel routes can be
connected by high-speed trains.
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