video if you're not already consider following me on instagram and twitter and joining our discord community with a new government in power in the united states that seems to be more progressive than any government before it and with the transportation secretary who's been retweeting high-speed rail fantasy maps i guess it's not all that surprising that people are a little bit excited about high-speed rail again even more importantly since NUMBER_TOKEN when barack obama was elected and there was another little bit of a high-speed rail craze a lot has happened and those changes in the context since NUMBER_TOKEN are something i find deeply fascinating to be clear when the big last push for high-speed rail happened people were super excited about the projects in california proposals for florida and other projects across the country and there was a lot of money apparently up for grabs sadly though since then the projects in california and brightland and florida have mostly fallen flat and with improvements on the northeast corridor the only substantial high-speed rail corridor that already exists in the united states coming far too slowly it wasn't exactly an exciting time better yet as evidenced by our high speed rail explained series we'll link a video up here there has been major growth in high-speed rail worldwide even small countries like morocco and saudi arabia now have high quality frankly incredibly high quality high-speed rail high-speed rail that surpasses the quality of anything that exists in the us right now perhaps more importantly the world's largest two high-speed rail networks have grown out substantially spain's as covered in our episode here and of course china's as discussed in our episode here don't forget to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon so you get notifications we're releasing out of their high speed rail explained tomorrow and i think you're going to like it see in particular china has emerged as a global superpower and this has got people's attention in the united states of course when barack obama was elected china's high-speed rail network looks something like this and now it looks like this the impact of china's rise to the global stage and its massive build out of high-speed rail has clearly had a substantial influence an influence which cannot be understated given the united states has very few high-speed rail corridors and the ones that do exist are not very high quality of course canada has none now with all of this in mind why am i optimistic how can we still compete the truth is there are a ton of corridors in north america which have a ton of potential for high-speed rail and we have an advantage that countries like spain korea japan and china didn't have the ability to see how they built out their networks and how those networks fared what i mean by this is that we have an opportunity to make much smarter investments i got a lot of comments on our spanish and chinese high speed rail videos talking about how a number of lines that exists are white elephants now to be clear i don't focus on those lines in my high speed rail explain video because generally at least from the inception of the channel i try to take a positive look at rail and transit projects around the world the media loves to talk about white elephants and so i just don't feel that much of a need but i also think there's a
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