Let's Replace Planes with Bullet Trains! The 10 Busiest Short-Hop Air Routes In the United States

This week we're looking at the busiest air routes that SHOULD be high speed rail, if the United States could figure out how to build it. These are the most-trafficked origin and destination city (really, combined statistical area) pairs in the US under 500 miles.

It's a distance we REALLY shouldn't have planes flying between large markets. Every other advanced nation has basically figured this out already, and we're still building narrow gauge tunnels for personal vehicles. It all makes perfect sense.

Video explores California High Speed Rail, the Texas Central, the Acela / Amtrak Northeast Corridor, potential Brightline extensions to Las Vegas and Atlanta, and touched on possibilities in Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and Guadalajara as well.

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
Improving Acela:    • U.S. High Speed Rail: What's Next? Analyzi...  
Regional Rail:    • Regional Rail Systems in North America: To...  
The Port Authority and the XBL:    • What a Tunnel Should Do: The Exclusive Bus...  
Canada HSR Race:    • High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car: Canada Ed...  
Mexico HSR Race:    • High Speed Rail vs. Car vs Bus vs Air in M...  

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Resources:
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables....%FLQOEO%FM&QO_fu146_anzr=b4vtv0%FDn0q%FDQr56v0n6v10%FDf748rB
https://www.texascentral.com/ridership/
https://www.frankfurt-airport.com/en/...
https://www.lek.com/insights/ei/high-...
https://northatlanticrail.org/travel-...
https://www.gobrightline.com/brightli...

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Images
NY Airport Video by Viktor_Laszlo from Pixabay
Korean high speed train Video by Train_Video from Pixabay
Model planes thumbnail Image by Günther Simmermacher from Pixabay
Bullet trains thumbnail Image by Katherine_Lawrence from Pixabay

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CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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