Personally I'd like to see a Ronald D. Moore reboot, his take on BSG was awesome.....

It's not just enough to build the hi speed rail. When you compare US public transportation to other countries the key difference is readily apparent. In Europe you can use a taxi, bus or local rail to connect to long distance rail, and airports. When the public transportation system is interconnected and easy to use, more people will use it. But right now the train stations are downtown, the bus station is somewhere else, and the airport is out in the 'burbs. If you want to get from one to the other it's difficult, time consuming and not easy. Once this is solved then there will be more users.

Where I live in Portland, OR, they are starting to solve this problem as now the light rail systems has a line into the airport. Now if they can put a light rail stop across the street from the train station they will start to have something very useful. But this change needs to happen everywhere, not just in one location.

This is one of those myths about capitalism, that it will solve all problems and find the cheapest solution. In this case the airports, trains, buses, and seaports were all controlled by different corporate entities and they all wanted to be "king" so they built their terminals in different places.

In the Northwest, Seattle was the seaport and the train barons didn't like that so they built all their train lines into Tacoma instead.....