Poor ignorant Bob... When I was working with ADS Dragados, I was too dumb to know that they had high speed trains in Spain...

And, my continued ignorance about "real" high speed rail... Now that I know from YouTube what somebody thinks the top ten HSR's are, that will help me to understand, that real high speed is the one that spends the most, to go the fastest...? Or did it have something to do with having an actual "business case" or existing demand that warranted that level of investment in what you like to call "real" high speed rail?

Didn't folks like Branson, actually have a successful strategic business model that they evolved for Eurostar? And, didn't SNCF already have an existing Paris Lyon line that was at capacity, with more annual trips, than Amtrak carries on all of its routes, when they upgraded to the TGV? And, wasn't Germany's intercity rail travel was over 900 million annual trips when they began to upgrade to super high speed...

Stupid me...for not knowing anything about the history or economics of "real" high speed rail... Without that YouTube video, you posted for poor ignorant BOB, I would never have known how ignorant I was...

Poor dumb stupid BOB, who used the term profitable rail system, instead of "high speed"... Aha! You caught me, you clever @#$%&, you..

And, that nonsense about Sounder, and gibberish about what will happen if demand is high on Virgin-Brightline... What exactly are you trying to say?

If demand is high, then Brightline-Virgin Trains may well raise fares, if demand is low, they won't be able to. They call that the supply and demand curve. If demand is high, and they charge more, they might make a bigger "profit" for the investors.

Or, if Virgin Trains had high demand, and charged higher fares, then they could use some of that "profit" to reinvest in more equipment, and provide more service, for more passenger, buying more tickets, and make even more profit... That's what markets do, they send "price signals" to producers, to invest in order to produce more or less of something...

Hey, isn't that kind of what Branson and L&C did turning Eurostar around?

So is Eurostar "real" high speed rail? You do know that Eurostar goes from the HS1 line, into London and St. Pancras at conventional speed, so should that really count?

Meanwhile, I just wrote a donation on April 15, to help find the "cure" for CA's high speed rail "inferiority complex", so we can build a "cost is no object" super high speed rail line that meets none of our actual "real" transportation needs, just to make sure that CA is the the "real" high speed rail "envy" of the world.

So, I do seem to have managed to light your fuse tonight, so I must be doing something right...

Maybe you need to take some of whatever Ben Carson was taking yesterday...and mellow out.