This article written shortly after Joe took office, and appearing at a site with which I am unfamiliar, suggests "we need it, but we're not ready" for HSR:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqz8y/ ... speed-rail
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqz8y/ ... speed-rail
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...Within the larger, dumber debate about whether President Biden's infrastructure plan really counts as infrastructure, there are virtually limitless smaller, better debates about whether the plan is any good. Even looking solely at the transportation section of the plan, such a debate can be had at several different levels. There is the high-level question of how much money ought to be spent on subsidizing cars and roads versus public transportation and other sustainable forms of transportation. Then there are countless other policy questions about how those subsidies should be structured, what kinds of public transportation should be built and where, and so on and so forth. ...Since it is simply "out of the question" that Joe will seek a second term, this article's contention of "we're not ready" will likely stand.
