You can’t scale air travel to serve as many people as HSR. There’s not room and we don’t have enough pilots. Airlines are already barely keeping up. Rail is much less expensive than flying because trains don’t have to overcome gravity. It’s simple physics.
The science is settled, we can’t all drive cars, let alone all fly. We have to stop burning gas to get around. HSR enables that and enables more sustainable urban development.
There’s nothing dramatic about this. These are plain facts. If we don’t act now future generations will suffer.
HSR will make California a more hospitable and sustainable place to live.
