> The same company recently completed a new bullet train from Miami to Orlando.
Brightline is an accomplishment, but this significantly oversells it: the Orlando-Miami route tops out at 125mph, which is barely HSR by any normal standard. A good chunk of the route is on pre-existing lines that top out at 79mph. For comparison, trains on the LGV Nord (31 years old) operate at 190mph[1].
I hope they continue to invest in HSR, but I don't think we should settle for marketing here.
Brightline is an accomplishment, but this significantly oversells it: the Orlando-Miami route tops out at 125mph, which is barely HSR by any normal standard. A good chunk of the route is on pre-existing lines that top out at 79mph. For comparison, trains on the LGV Nord (31 years old) operate at 190mph[1].
I hope they continue to invest in HSR, but I don't think we should settle for marketing here.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Nord