China’s train: Travels the equivalent of Boston to southern Virginia in 3 hours.
US’s fastest train: Travels from Boston to New York in over 3 hours.
This young Chinese Girl enjoys something most Americans can't --- high speed rail.
How can the US – the world’s richest country by far – not do better in this regard. We need to get this into gear or we will be left behind (ha-ha get the humor in that?).
I am about to give up on Amtrak. I had an argument with a sibling – who supports train travel but not government running it. If China can do it why can’t we? Is their government more effective than ours? I also argue, however, that if we did ask private companies to run our train system – PASSENGER train system – that if the government poured a similar amount of money as we do into roads and airlines – all PUBLIC money – we would have a state of the art train system and the companies running these systems would be successful unlike the airline companies.
Airlines and to a certain extent ROADS – do not work! It is time to try something else… trains.
