If you suppose that a proposed local high-speed rail line would cause you inconvenience you do not oppose it publicly by saying that it would cause you inconvenience. That would be a self-centred triviality. You say instead that such a line would be unnecessary and uneconomical. When doing so you ignore the fact that you have neither the knowledge, nor the expertise, nor the financial resources available to those who proposed and recommended the construction of the line.
In general therefore, the High-Speed-Rail Effect is opposition in public to a scheme that could affect you adversely, not in terms of how it would affect you, but in terms of wholly unrelated and seemingly important matters of which you are in no position to take full account,
