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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change (www.raillynews.com)
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USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Just an excuse.

Yes, it is more time consuming and expensive to acquire land than would be ideal, but protecting property owner rights is also important.

However most of the land needed was protected by freight rail and Amtrak. We already have most of the track right of way needed, at least in the Northeast and Midwest, and the expensive part is mainly little bits of land to straighten out curves. It could be worse