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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
There are other "viable corridors" if people were more accepting of the whole idea:
1 - LA to Las Vegas
2 - SF to Sacramento
3 - Portland--Seattle--Vancouver
4 - Gulf Coast (Houston--New Orleans--Mobile--Orlando)
5 - Charlotte--Greensboro--Raleigh-Durham
6 - St. Louis--Chcago--Milwaukee--Minneapolis
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1 - Private firm attempting to raise funds to make it happen, no luck so far.
2- - SF to Sacramento is part of CHSR, if CHSR raises the money.
3 - Cascades trains already at work, with maximum speeds of 90 mph. Neither state, Oregon or Washington, wants to spend the money to go faster.
4 - No one is looking at implementing faster speeds than 79 mph, and the Houston leg west of New Orleans only see 6 trains per week.
5 - NCDOT presently double tracking passing sidings for maximum speeds of
79 mph. FRA studying faster 110 mph speeds north of Raleigh, no construction money allocated yet.
6- IDOT presently upgrading track and signals for 110 mph maximum speeds. A study underway for implementing faster speeds, but Illinois is almost bankrupted because of retirement packages of various state employees. IDOT isn't likely to get more funding for faster speeds.
Unless you consider 110 mph maximum speeds HSR, which I doubt you do, only two of the six corridors on your list is actually looking at building 150-200 mph maximum speeds trains.