Gene Richards: Japan did high-speed rail right, 50 years ago

Japan has just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the start of high-speed rail. The train travels at 200 mph, has had no fatalities and an average arrival deviation of 35 seconds.

This is a country that makes outstanding automobiles – yet they wasted billions on trains when they could have paved the country and luxuriated in Lexus comfort while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Now they will compound the error by building a similar train in Indonesia.

This story was originally published August 27, 2015 at 3:40 PM with the headline "Gene Richards: Japan did high-speed rail right, 50 years ago."