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I love the convenience of the large rail network in Europe.
I think I read an article in the New Yorker several years ago comparing the regular train route between Washington DC and New York City and flying between the two and the result was that both took about the same amount of time because of the need to commute from the each city to the airport and back. The total time was about 4 hours. In fact the train time was about 3 minute shorter than the total airplane/taxi to airport mode of travel.
The ACELA line actually get a person from New York to Washington faster than flying does.
Until recently in lived in a state that passed a referndum to build a high speed maglev train from one side of the state to the other, between two major cities. It passed by a large margin, but the Governor used a little known part of the state constitions to overturn the result of the referendum