> or one of them, it's genuinely a stretch to call it "HSR"

How fast is California's HSR?

That's both sarcasm and an actual question. It doesn't go anywhere now but I keep hearing it's speed get downgraded as they encounter the real world. Plus, the goal of LA-SF is practically abandoned and now it takes you from a place you don't want to be to a place you don't want to go.

You really can't compare the two because one exists only as a goal and the other is an accomplishment.