Just going to throw this out there, a $20B budget for a high speed mass environmentally friendly transit system would be a comparable of a R&D budget of a space program that could deliver people anywhere in the world within hours, or solar powered commercial planes. Both of which would have far more reaching technological achievements that could be utilized elsewhere in other industries.
If we are going to spend $20B on a single project, lets put that money to a little better use than a rail system that is reliant on a non-flexible infrastructure system.
Others have said it, the reason Canada dosent have a decent rail network is population density, we dont have it. Thus the ROI is significantly smaller.
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