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My intent with "a good passenger rail system" was to respond to your earlier statement "a high speed rail will never benefit most residents", and not focus on "better". An express limited service in the 1940s did not benefit most residents, compared to a local service, in a similar way to high speed service now. My example of those two compacts was to show that supra-state organizations can exist with transport goals…
+ My opinion about the utility of compacts is that there is no evidence on the ground that they will lead to interstate high speed rail networks. Beyond evidence on the ground, the political requirements for interstate high speed rail is sustained political support for the network in each state in the network. Assigning a probability (p) of sustained political support to each state (S) in an interstate network (IN),…
Re: As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
#171Your response affirms my earlier statement that "I don't think it can be as simple as [a lack of 'political subdivision at the regional level']". I thank you for your more detailed response now, which I do not object to.