President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.

According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.

The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: “We believe in this.”

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    3 months ago

    China has 76 High-Speed Rail lines…

    Surely you mean km, and the current number is 45,000km across 990 stations.

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      3 months ago

      As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country’s 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world’s high-speed rail tracks in commercial service.

      Must be nice to live in a modern industrialized country.