Part 1: What If The United States Had A National High Speed Rail Network?
🌐 Website: https://whatifgeography.com/📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobeHigh speed rail is an incredibly efficient way of moving people around a country. The amount of energy it takes is far less than either personal vehicles or airplanes. Despite this, the United States has almost entirely shunned all forms of usable passenger rail transportation outside of a few key areas. But if China can build out a world class high speed rail network, then so can the United States. In part 1 of our two part episode: we explore the history of passenger rail in the United States and how it became such a dominant form of passenger transportation to where we are today with Amtrak.