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Yay or Nay
100
This country home to over 300 million people lacks a large-scale HSR system
What is the US?
100
California's HSR project was originally planned to connect these two cities
What is San Francisco and Los Angeles?
100
This company that is owned by Richard Branson and has created a "Hyperloop" plans on building a HSR line from Las Vegas to Southern California
What is Virgin (Virgin Trains USA)?
100
This US president has repeatedly voiced his love of trains and wants to promote them through a "Build Back Better" plan
Who is Joe Biden?
100
Proponents of HSR argue that taking cars off the road will result in less consumption of this resource, which is especially crucial as the war in Ukraine rages on
What is oil?
200
This island nation is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains
What is Japan?
200
This city's BART system is among the nation's only profitable passenger rail lines
What is San Francisco?
200
This company's high-speed Acela trains run in the US
What is Amtrak?
200
This governor of California announced the scale-back of the state's HSR project
Who is Gavin Newsom?
200
Proponents of HSR argue that access to this medical procedure under threat due to a Supreme Court ruling will increase with more transit available
What is abortion?
300
This country has the longest HSR system
What is China?
300
Amtrak runs a short high-speed rail line along this coast/region
What is the east coast OR northeast?
300
This group focuses entirely on advancing national HSR in the US and has contributed to an HSR map widely shared on Twitter
What is the US High Speed Rail Association?
300
This US president issued over $11 bil in grants to develop faster passenger trains, a move that is considered unsuccessful given a lack of progress
Who is Barack Obama?
300
Proponents of HSR may argue that the US should build HSR in other countries to counter this Chinese infrastructure program
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
400
This country's HSR contributed to the country's "Alitalia" airline going out of business
What is Italy?
400
This state is home to Brightline, a company running HSR that connects various coastal cities
What is Florida?
400
This libertarian think tank has published numerous reports building a case against HSR in the US
What is CATO?
400
This governor of California approved the state's plans to build HSR
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
400
Opponents of HSR argue that HSR divides communities and spurs rapid economic development, leading to this process
What is gentrification?
500
This country is planning on building a project called "HS2" which will expand its five already-existing HSR lines
What is the UK?
500
This state's Department of Transportation laid out plans to build a HSR line along the Cascadia Corridor
What is Washington?
500
This company has plans to build a HSR line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston
What is Texas Central Railway?
500
This person, also known as the Antiplanner, has published various books and written several articles criticizing HSR plans in the US
Who is Randal O'Toole?
500
Opponents of HSR argue that building the trains themselves will use up a lot of this group of precious resources due to the use of magnets and electronics
What are rare earth metals/minerals?