11-07-2015, 11:29 AM
Round and round we go. Obviously that's the optimal thing to do, but all I'm pointing out is that if we ask for too much, all that's going to happen is someone's going to say "Oh it's too expensive." and it gets cancelled like it has every other time for the last 40 years of HSR studies. Accepting something slightly less fast than 300 km/h but significantly cheaper that will meet 80% of the requirement of optimal, true HSR may be the way to go - and this is what the UK has done/is doing.