When I was an apartment manager I had seniors living there who could no longer afford the rising rents. They had to leave the apartment they loved and look for senior low-income housing. They applied for help at
In exchange you give the 9m people in DC and Baltimore access to the midwest (while losing 1m in Lancaster/Harrisburg), and you do it for ~60mi/100km less new construction (because Phila-DC will be HSR already, while Harrisburg-Phila doesn’t need HSR for Keystone) and about 10mi les...