{"id":49660,"date":"2024-05-21T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=49660"},"modified":"2024-05-21T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:01:53","slug":"why-cant-america-have-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=49660","title":{"rendered":"Why can\u2019t America have high-speed rail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around the world,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/04\/22\/brightline-west-construction-starts-high-speed-passenger-train-los-angeles-las-vegas\/\">high-speed<\/a>\u00a0trains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/09\/21\/new-brightline-high-speed-train-linking-miami-orlando-open-first-private-us-passenger-rail-line-100-years\/\">zip<\/a>\u00a0from city to city, sometimes topping 250 miles per hour before dropping off hundreds of passengers right in a city\u2019s downtown. However, in the U.S., that vision of efficient, fast, environmentally friendly travel remains a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/12\/06\/california-high-speed-rail-los-angeles-las-vegas-san-francisco-6-billion-white-house\/\">dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because our investment is a \u2018rounding error\u2019 compared with Europe\u2019s, says Amtrak\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":49661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7665,163],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-49660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-speed-rail-2","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49704,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660\/revisions\/49704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}