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How Florida's Brightline train line may inadvertently be ruining American high-speed rail (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/transit@lemmy.world

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Yes, I know I'm inviting controversy with that title -- but the fact remains that Brightline has problems that make it very far from ideal. Criticism is warranted if the US is to have solid HSR at the level that Europe or Asia do.

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[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's exactly it! Brightline is an amazing concept in theory, but the implementation feels half-baked, like they established a minimum level of functionality and just left it at that without considering the other, related issues that would make for an actually useful, comprehensive transit solution.

As it is, it's all too easy for people to point to the flaws in the system and go "see, that's why HSR will never work in North America. Let's just go back to commuting by car, traffic be damned."