>>1700865>Amtrak has 150+mph rail service,No it does not. The trainset used for Acela can theoretically move that fast (on short, specific sections of track), but in practice travels substantially slower. It's only ~30 minutes faster than the regional train.
Incidentally, I'm riding the Acela Express right now; I've also ridden actual HSR in other countries. They're not remotely on the same level.
>they have trouble finding people to buy ticketsAcela Express (tickets starting at ~80 dollars) had 3.6 million riders in 2019.
The Northeast Regional line had 8.9 million.
>, “MOAR TREINZ” isn’t going to fix thatFrequency is one of the biggest components of an attractive travel service. If there aren't options at convenient times, I'm not going to take it.
>Amtrak has not once broken even in its 50 years of operationAnd it's not going to because it's legally mandated to operate a large number of unprofitable routes across the US.
>the government throws money at it US spending on Amtrak is paltry.
