Reduced Congestion
What price do we put on the time we’re stuck in traffic? How about $87.2 billion a year lost in automotive gridlock? If you live in a city with horribly congested freeways, you may be spending more time sitting than you do actually driving. But since a single train track can carry the same amount of people as a 10 lane highway (and at a fraction of the cost), high speed trains could help relieve some of that traffic jam angst.