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Nick Herman's avatar

Yeah, speaking as a native Californian, I remember when those proposals were first introduced for train between SF and LA, and still nothing has happened apparently—it will never happen—not least of which because public transit is anathema to the vast majority of Americans, total pipe dream. I took the shinkansen in Japan only once when I was there. My thoughts were: very fast, very expensive, rain drops condensing horizontally onto the windows very quickly.

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Safi Aziz's avatar

Beautifully written. Very impressed with the analysis here.

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