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Right now I live in China and I've been taking advantage of its High-Speed (200 km/h+) trains. Heck, even its low-speed trains are faster than Amtrak and your average field worker can afford a ticket.
Here's what the Yankee federal government has envisioned:
California is currently working on the largest public works project in America; a bullet train that will go from San Diego to San Francisco. Funding and taxes have been allocated to this huge effort and California will have trains traveling over 200 mph within the next 10 years; well ahead of any other state.
Florida will have the first high speed rail line open in the country. From tampa to orlando within less than four years. Then from orlando to miami in less than 10 years.
Florida will have the first high speed rail line open in the country. From tampa to orlando within less than four years. Then from orlando to miami in less than 10 years.
Really? Can you cite evidence for this claim? Thanks.
Really? Can you cite evidence for this claim? Thanks.
"Florida is on track to open America’s first HSR express service between Tampa and Orlando in 2015. Trains are projected to reach speeds of at least 168 mph. Florida plans to eventually extend this service to Miami."
Thats the reason why Obama made the announcement of the high speed rail funding in Tampa because the Tampa-Orlando route is the most shovel ready in the US. I-4 b/w Tampa and Orlando was designed to have rail in the median.
The high speed rail being built in Florida first may cause the collapse of all other highspeed rail projects in America. This rail is mainly being built for Disney to transport its tourists to Tampa area beaches and will not benefit the commuting public in Florida. This project will have limited ridership and will fail and doom the rest of the projects nationwide. The Bos-Wash corridor or other highly commuter driven market should be first to guarantee the success of these projects. Obama is trying to help the drowning Florida with these jobs but it will done other projects if allowed to proceed.
The high speed rail being built in Florida first may cause the collapse of all other highspeed rail projects in America. This rail is mainly being built for Disney to transport its tourists to Tampa area beaches and will not benefit the commuting public in Florida. This project will have limited ridership and will fail and doom the rest of the projects nationwide. The Bos-Wash corridor or other highly commuter driven market should be first to guarantee the success of these projects. Obama is trying to help the drowning Florida with these jobs but it will done other projects if allowed to proceed.
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The Texas Triangle has their plans ready also for HSR, they initially unveiled the plans back in the 1980's but the French Company was a shallow and borderline in debt, along with Southwest Airlines negating it out, this time around its Japan thats taken its interest and the current plans are Houston to Dallas-Fort Worth but will include Austin & San Antonio in Phase II. The Japanese cant afford to not do this otherwise they will borderline extinction due to Chinese competitors in regional markets. So thanks Japan!
I was reading up on the demise on the Texas Triangle I in the '90s last night. It convinced me to never fly Southwest ever again.
A lot of the Chinese high-speed trains were imported from Germany of all places. There were some Chinese-designed and -built prototypes, but they never put them to use. The Japanese built Taiwan's high-speed line. You can go from Taipei all the way to the south of the island in 90 minutes, which is roughly the same distance of going to Wichita to Kansas City or Fargo to Minneapolis, both of which takes about three hours and some change to get to.
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