Posted on 12/17/2018 11:33:35 AM PST by george76
No problem has existed liberals haven’t found that money can’t be thrown at.
“What’s wrong with regular rail?”
It’s not putting $$ in the right pockets.
Its too slow.
HSR will never be faster under real world conditions. It was a snow job.
If they estimate 77 billion it’s probably at least twice that.
I enjoy taking the train, much more so than flying by an order of magnitude. My next trip to CA to visit family will be via train.
By the way: Most people have no idea how fast California trains travel. I was amazed.
I just wish they were run by responsible capitalists who would include commerce cars for the passengers: Restaurant, bar, etc. (perhaps even a party car) and let competition dictate prices, drive sales & help finance the operation.
Just like the airports do with static storefronts.
Indeed. I just compared the Acela prices from Washington, DC to Boston--$531 for the dates I selected, round trip--and plane tickets for the same, which range from $115 to $321 for non-stop flights. And the flights are much faster, 1h35m each way.
I like trains just fine, but this high-speed rail project is fraught with problems no matter how one looks at it.
One issue I never see brought up by the supposedly environmentally aware is that a high speed train will be devastating to wildlife. If normal freeways with speeds of 60-80 mph are responsible for so many thousands of wildlife deaths, how many more wild animals are going to be killed by trains barreling through at speeds above 100 mph? But I guess wild animal lives don't matter when it's "for the environment." After all, the bird carnage caused by "environmentally friendly" windmills don't seem to faze these people at all.
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