America Should NOT Have A High-Speed Train System

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Many countries, such as France, Sweden, Japan, and the United Kingdom rely on high speed systems for rapid transportation between two points. Though it has yet to be implemented on American soil, they’re highly successful in terms of passenger usage in these countries. This begs you to question, should America have a high speed rail system? I believe that America shouldn't have a high-speed rail system because: the costs of building a high speed rail system are great, and we can do so much more with the money; it’ll take jobs away from other transportation industries such as the airline industry and the bus industry; and constructing a high speed rail line will produce massive emissions which basically makes its advantages in economy irrelevant. Let’s start off by talking about the costs of implementing a high speed rail system. Back in 2009,…show more content…
For example, say a company has a successful bus route from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Then, a different company decides to build a high-speed rail line between those two cities. Once the high-speed rail line is completed, many passengers switch to rail transportation and start ditch ground transportation in favor for the quicker, and only slightly more expensive rail transportation. Since less passengers used ground transportation, in favor for the quicker rail line, the bus company would then have to lower the amount of daily bus departures as result of the decreasing amount in passenger travel. By lowering the amount of daily departures, the bus company would have to lay off some jobs since they do not need as much people to work anymore. Same would go for the airline industry. The airline would have to lower the amount of daily flights between those two cities as people will choose the, as quick but cheaper, high-speed rail
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