High-Speed Rail As a Conduit of Sprawl

It’s fast, it’s efficient and it is the future of transportation, but will high-speed rail cause sprawl?

Yes, it could, warn some urban planners. Despite the promise of creating more densely populated urban centers, high-speed rail could do quite the opposite by making it easier for people to live far from urban centers.

Let’s use California as an example, since high-speed rail has made the most progress there. The Golden State, long known as a trendsetter for

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