"Pacific Coast High Speed Rail" is the general term for proposed High Speed Rail lines through the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California. Depending on the plan, it can even extend to Vancouver, British Columbia and Tijuana, Mexico. One of the main ideas of connecting California and the Pacific Northwest by High Speed Rail is that both areas are population dense, "high tech" areas and that it makes sense for people to zip between San Francisco and Portland at 200+ mph so we can have high tech synergy between high tech areas and so on. While some advocates of Pacific Coast High Speed Rail are just crayoning, I have seen it mentioned as a serious proposal in legitimate news outlets, like The Guardian
I am a train enthusiast, and I have ridden the current Amtrak train, the Coast Starlight, between Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area many times. And the idea of a faster
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