• @SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
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    42 days ago

    According to wiki the USA has a higher population density and less distance of HS rail. Kinda blows out the “we’re too spread out thing”.

    • @cymbal_king@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I think the north east corridor Acela line claims to be high speed, its a bit faster than standard Amtrak I guess. I think there’s also a line in Florida

  • @tyler@programming.dev
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    152 days ago

    The title is written weirdly, I’ll reword it longer.

    Uzbekistan has several hundred miles of high speed rail, the US has less than a hundred. Even with the new projects being built in the US that will more than quintuple the amount of high speed rail, the US will still have less than Uzbekistan. The US lines are very different speeds, 125, 150, (200), (220), while the Uzbekistan lines are the same speeds 160, (160). The lines in parentheses aren’t built yet.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yes, Technically a few miles of Acela track are high enough speed to cross the threshold to “high speed”. It’s actually amazing that you really can’t tell any difference on that section of track. The old train sets can hit 155 mph on that section, but I thought the newer ones with more tilt can do 165

      That being said, I thought it was 35 miles