{"id":306981,"date":"2025-11-22T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306981\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:42:20","slug":"what-if-the-united-states-had-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306981\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the United States had high-speed rail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans planning holiday travel may be facing some of the worst flight delays in years. Although the government shutdown has ended, it could take <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/11\/us\/shutdown-travel-problems-linger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">months for air travel to fully recover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>High-speed trains would offer Americans an attractive alternative \u2014 if they existed.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 years ago, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aar.org\/chronology-of-americas-freight-railroads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States<\/a> opened its first modern railway and by 1850, it was home to more than 9,000 miles of railroad \u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aar.org\/chronology-of-americas-freight-railroads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as much as the rest of the world combined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, US train travel is unrecognizable from its heyday, yet there\u2019s a proven alternative to gridlocked highways and overcrowded airports: high-speed trains. CNN has reimagined three of the busiest flight and road trip routes across the US mainland as high-speed rail lines \u2013 offering a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans planning holiday travel may be facing some of the worst flight delays in years. Although the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-306981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}