Can a private company make high-speed rail work in the U.S.? #shorts

Bright Line's Florida trains run at street level through crowded neighborhoods. And according to numbers compiled by the Miami Herald and local public radio, more than 200 people have been hit and killed by the trains in the near decade since operations began. Bright Line says that running rail in the desert out west, where track crossings won't be at street level, will be a safer proposition.Then there are the finances. The stratospheric cost of building and running a rail line vastly outstrip revenues. An ...