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China has one so we have to have one too.
It's that yuppie "Keep up with the Jones" attitude.
China has a huge population heavily concentrated on the coast, the US has a big population too but sparsely populated, you can't compare.
High-Speed Rail is good, but only in dense areas like northeastern states, California or Texas Triangle, but no the entire country.
I'd love to see HSR throughout the US.
It's cheaper than driving, uses less fuel, is efficient...
I'd take the train if I could, it's relaxing and fun.
I don't know why people balk at it.
It provides jobs, saves money....
Oh yeah, Obama is tied to it.
Of course it's now a bad idea.
I'd love to see HSR throughout the US.
It's cheaper than driving, uses less fuel, is efficient...
I'd take the train if I could, it's relaxing and fun.
I don't know why people balk at it.
It provides jobs, saves money....
Oh yeah, Obama is tied to it.
Of course it's now a bad idea.
Because it's a pie in the sky ideal. You live in Europe, so I can see how you can have your judgment clouded. What works in Europe does not necessarily work here, and vice versa. We simply don't have the population density for HSR to be viable outside of the Bos-Wash corridor or California. Until domestic plane ticket prices start to cost the same as trans-Atlantic ones, HSR will be a supermassive blackhole of a pet project.
Remarkably widespread derision has greeted the Obama administration’s damn-the-arithmetic-full-speed-ahead proposal to spend $53 billion more (after the $8 billion in stimulus money and $2.4 billion in enticements to 23 states) in the next six years pursuant to the president’s loopy goal of giving “80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail.”
So why is America’s “win the future” administration so fixated on railroads, a technology that was the future two centuries ago? Because progressivism’s aim is the modification of (other people’s) behavior.
This is so true.
They won't be happy until they dictate every aspect of your life.
why not, he should be, after all he is railed around in a big personal jet, a fleet of big SUVs, he probably wishes he was like the queen and get a big ship with an admiral to cruise in; so yeah, you should have a train, especially one that drops you off at some crap hole spot with the need for an expensive fare regulated cab to haul you around at your destination.
Perhaps nothing so illustrates President Obama’s occasional disconnect with reality than his fervent advocacy of high-speed rail. Amid mounting pressure for budget cuts that affect existing programs, including those for the inner city, the president has made his $53 billion proposal to create a national high-speed rail network as among his top priorities.
Our President may be an intelligent and usually level-headed man, but this represents a serious case of policy delusion. As Robert Samuelson pointed out in Newsweek, high-speed rail is not an appropriate fit for a country like the U.S. Except for a few areas, notably along the Northeast Corridor, the U.S. just lacks the density that would make such a system work. Samuelson calls the whole idea “a triumph of fancy over fact.”
It's simple, GE is in the high-speed rail business, and the windmill business, so 0bama, the crony capitalist, can't throw enough government subsidized, taxpayer money their way.
It's simple, GE is in the high-speed rail business, and the windmill business, so 0bama, the crony capitalist, can't throw enough government subsidized, taxpayer money their way.
GE is also in airline industry. With your kind of assumption, no politician should support oil based businesses if they have “ties”.
Stop fooling around, start thinking.
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