$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law –…
the first world-class high-speed rail projects in our country’s history
The US already has high speed rail: the Acela express. According to Wikipedia, though,
The maximum speed limit on the Northeast Corridor is 150 mph (240 km/h) on 49.9 miles (80.3 km) of the 457-mile (735 km) route, in four sections of track in Rhode Island, Massachusetts,[6] and New Jersey. The Acela achieves an average speed (including stops) of 90 mph (140 km/h) between Washington and New York,[3][9] and an average speed of 66 mph (106 km/h) from New York to Boston.[2][11] The average speed over the entire route is 70.3 mph (113 km/h).
Correction:
The US already has high speed rail: the Acela express. According to Wikipedia, though,
That is to say, the US has HSR, but mediocre HSR.
Mid-Speed Rail, really. Which isn’t bad, just not HSR.
Looking at the definitions section of the Wikipedia article on HSR, the Acela is around the bare minimum of several definitions, such as
Or
The Acela is either great MSR, or about half of it is bare minimum HSR, depending on definitions.