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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SteO153 on 2025-03-14 08:35:14+00:00.
rail network bigger than US
THANK YOU
for that big grin on my face
TIL the US has some high speed rail. I didn’t think we had any.
The title is written weirdly, I’ll reword it longer.
Uzbekistan has several hundred miles of high speed rail, the US has less than a hundred. Even with the new projects being built in the US that will more than quintuple the amount of high speed rail, the US will still have less than Uzbekistan. The US lines are very different speeds, 125, 150, (200), (220), while the Uzbekistan lines are the same speeds 160, (160). The lines in parentheses aren’t built yet.
OP had a stroke while watching arab fast & furious
According to wiki the USA has a higher population density and less distance of HS rail. Kinda blows out the “we’re too spread out thing”.
What