America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
Tunnels and viaducts? Unknown technology! If only some other mountainous nation on the Pacific rim had built an extensive bullet train network decades ago that we could use as a template.
Tunnels and viaducts? Unknown technology! If only some other mountainous nation on the Pacific rim had built an extensive bullet train network decades ago that we could use as a template.