How soon until china will build usa rail system up to world's high speed rail standards?

x-Wulfgar-x

21 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes, and 4 seconds from 1500 GMT on 28 Dec 2019.

Snezzy

US rail has old rights of way and infrastructure, some of it nearly continuously in use since about 1830, and often difficult or impossible to upgrade without massive rebuilding of everything. The use of the same rail corridor for high-speed passenger service and for freight requires construction of additional dedicated high-speed rail, or at least turnouts where (necessarily slow) freight can be shunted so that high speed service can go ahead. The easiest places to construct high-speed rail on new right-of-way is in places where nobody lives or wants to go. There have occasionally been opportunities for new right-of-way in cities where "urban renewal" was planned. It's often called "urban removal" by its detractors. The joking suggestion is to nuke the cities down to nothing but fractured glass, and build atop the rubble.

regerugged

It will not happen.

Fuhr

The USA has no use for high-speed rail. We're already building teleportation stations.

Anonymous

Our bullet train is Southwest Airlines.