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HSR is inherently, not cost effective, for the majority of situations.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
It's difficult to understand because it's not true, and you just keep on making stuff up to support your wild personal belief. Just because you, personally, live somewhere that has no shortage of parking (ie, no city in the world), and because you can afford to have a car (which a great many Americans cannot), does not mean you speak for the whole country. You have nothing to base this position on, and no, the one post above about relative prices for a train ride and a flight are not proof at all. There's all kinds of government subsidies and the like that make air travel cheaper. That information has nothing to do with the true cost.
Millions of Americans use rail every day, and it's a great boon. Affordable and quick travel beyond one's immediate area could mobilize the workforce, and allow people to get from place to place for their jobs. Locality of work is a huge problem for a lot of lower class workers in this country. Giving them the opportunity to go where the work is, without having to move their families and their lives to a new area... Could make a huge difference in reinvigorating the economy and building up the lower class into members of the middle class.