they included links from vancouver to seattle, montreal to boston, toronto to buffalo and toronto to detroit, but if we were going to take part in this at all , we'd have a line from montreal to toronto that either goes through or extends to ottawa - as something like half our population lives in the st. lawerence seaway & great lakes area.
and, we've been bad at this.
for some reason, our politicians have historically insisted on building high-speed rail over diesel, and then not understood why nobody supports it. there's also a specific company called bombardier that we keep sinking money into - and they've just repeatedly failed at actually manufacturing anything.
as bad as it always was, we don't have the yankee excuse, any more. they're doing it. we're not.