66. High speed rail service in US not economically feasible when compared with auto and air travel<p>--<p>Sure, with current safety standards for trains and with the way that track maintenance is treated (as opposed to road maintenance).<p>When you get a clean bullet train (that isn't overweight because of excessive regulations) people will stop driving as much between cities.
There are some good points here, but that shorthand they use makes a lot of the post a guessing game. If you wrote this, it might be really great if you fleshed it out so that other people could understand it easily.