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It is 400 miles from LAX to SFO. You cannot run freight and Highspeed trains on the same rails. So, you need to buy 400 miles by 100 feet, plus bridges, etc to put this in. You get transportation from point A to point B. This will NEVER make economic sense. The talked about Air Taxi system makes much more sense.

I understand why you like the idea of Trains. Less security. Bigger setup with food bars, etc. But it will not work in the USA. It might work on the Eastern Seaboard between DC, Philly, NYC, Boston. It will not work in California.

There is a huge difference between creating a highspeed rail service between the densely populated, not too distant, cities in Europe. But again, how many of the Cities have TGV service?

Paris to Brussels, Paris to London. London to Brussels. That was about all I could find. And there is a lot of traffic between those cities.

Round trip from Paris to Brussels on the TGV cost me $79 Euro, about $110. It takes about 1.5 hours and 255 km (160 miles).

So, using the same avg speed and price, the trip from SFO to LAX will take over 3 hours. The cost would be $275.

American Airlines offers service for $93 round trip. Flight is under an hour.

If you are willing to go SNA to OAK, the cost is only $74 round trip!