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    28 days ago

    Spain’s average population density is on par with California. It would rank as the 10th most densely populated state in the US. And it is about the same size as California, too. Its GDP per capita is about one third of the US or California’s, and the whole infrastructure for high speed rail is 100% publicly funded. Private operators pay a fee to use the public tracks.

    So yeah, no, that’s no excuse. Even at the state level pretty much any state with significant urban centres could pull this off.