Why can't America have high-speed trains? (xpost from GD)

[elleng]

3. This country's too big,

France, Spain and Japan are MUCH smaller, and China's less populated between major cities. AND there's too little interest in such travel in the US. Who HERE, thinking/needing to travel to/from CA and NY, would actually CHOOSE to take a train, regularly, even if it were available?

Any IDEA the time and expense involved in constructing such, coast to coast?

Let's be real, think of appropriate corridors here where it SHOULD and COULD be done, and see how much actual interest, passenger-wise and business-wise, there is.

And Congress! Positive Train Control??? https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0152