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To: tejek who wrote (706036)	4/7/2013 9:34:11 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578239

Sure you get economies of scale, but in terms of justifying the subsidies (to the extent they are justified at all which is dubious) something that you can get more out of can reasonably be considered to be worth more input. If you dump a lot of money for little benefit, it isn't cost effective. Economies of scale won't impact this much with HSR (or with ordinary slower speed long distance passenger rail), there will never be enough scale there, and in fact as the systems expand they move away from the most viable routes and become less cost effective, not more.