Skip Texas and southern red States
Because Montana & North Dakota don’t deserve modernization.
Or South Dakota, or Wyoming, or Idaho, or any part of Nevada that isn’t Las Vegas.
It’s not that those places don’t deserve modernization, it’s just that those are much more sparsely populated areas, with much longer distances between population centers. From a cost and logistics perspective, it doesn’t make sense to build routes in those places before establishing routes elsewhere, in denser areas. You have to walk before you can run, etc.
I’ve been to both. Montana is happy to larp as a cowboy state and North Dakota knows what it did.
Teal line really should be going to at least Duluth (city at the western point of lake Superior). It’s so weird that it stops at the twin cities. I’m guessing the person who made this map doesn’t know much about Minnesota.
I currently live in a void, but would absolutely move to be adjacent to a high speed node. This is an excellent map to think about.
What data was used to decide on routes? Is it based off highway data?
I mean, affordable high speed rail is kinda sexy, iykwim
