High speed rail between megaregions would be cost-prohibitive. When you try to compare the US to other countries with extensive passenger rail, consider the distance covered by those systems.
One word: China.
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The entire Shinkansen network in Japan is 1834 miles. If you could do a reasonably straight rail line from the north end of ME to the south end of FL, you've already exceeded that. Add another line from FL to TX and you've doubled it. Link in CA, add some lines across the midwest.. it becomes an astronomically large project and you've still left most of the country[by area not population] hundreds of miles from a track.
We have high speed rail NY to DC and Seattle to San Fransisco. Problem is its rail. Engines can do 117 MPH (20 years ago, might be better now) and the Talgo cars can take 220. The track is limited to 79 and not nearly all the run is near that speed limit.
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Local rail is decent enough in NY and CA. It's unpleasant to ride compared to the Japanese local rail, but that's mostly because Americans are rude, selfish and disgusting people compared to Japanese.
Local rail in the NY region is fairly disgusting without people.
I suspect the way IQ test is designed only test specific kind of intelligence, such as the ability to identify logic between images.
The only thing IQ tests measure is how well you take IQ tests. It is literally the only thing they can measure.
Full disclosure: I
take took IQ tests REALLY well.