Should we built the high speed rail network? (USA, great, America)
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Of course they are. They live in big cities. What if the trains have to go through wetlands? What about eminent domain? Are they paying for it or do they expect the rest of us to subsidize their ticket price? What do the studies say about how much they'll have to charge you for a round trip? Just trying to figure out if it will cost you more than a plane trip and we'll have a rail system with no riders. The problem with trains is that they only go to places with tracks.
How about you go small first and build one between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vegas? And one between DC, NY and Boston and see if it's worth it to go large.
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Back to HSR. The River Line that runs between Trenton and Camden NJ is ONLY safe during main rush hours.
Why? Even then ridership is limited to those without other means of transportation.
So all teachers from from the same school? No, they do not. Then you go on to give a vague response on schooling to justify your inaccurate response about the problem being inner city ghettos.
What do you mean the River Line? Do you mean the light rail line? Do you know what High Speed Rail is and the difference between that and Light Rail is?
Of course they are. They live in big cities. What if the trains have to go through wetlands? What about eminent domain? Are they paying for it or do they expect the rest of us to subsidize their ticket price? What do the studies say about how much they'll have to charge you for a round trip? Just trying to figure out if it will cost you more than a plane trip and we'll have a rail system with no riders. The problem with trains is that they only go to places with tracks.
How about you go small first and build one between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vegas? And one between DC, NY and Boston and see if it's worth it to go large.
Many rail routes can use the interstates that we have now to reduce the need for going through wetlands and eminent domain.
Many rail routes can use the interstates that we have now to reduce the need for going through wetlands and eminent domain.
The places where there is land around freeways to build rail would not have an issue finding other land to build on. Most metropolitan areas don't have any spaces around freeways because the freeway has already expanded to fit the full space available because demand is high in the area.
Did you see the cost to build the tunnel in Boston and how long it took? Now imagine doing that in every metropolitan area in the country, but every project would be even larger in scale.
This would take probably 50-60 years to complete, cost hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions of dollars up front, plus ongoing subsidize in perpetuity all while not being as good as air travel, which is already paid for.
The places where there is land around freeways to build rail would not have an issue finding other land to build on. Most metropolitan areas don't have any spaces around freeways because the freeway has already expanded to fit the full space available because demand is high in the area.
Did you see the cost to build the tunnel in Boston and how long it took? Now imagine doing that in every metropolitan area in the country, but every project would be even larger in scale.
This would take probably 50-60 years to complete, cost hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions of dollars up front, plus ongoing subsidize in perpetuity all while not being as good as air travel, which is already paid for.
Most freeways have space above them. When you can't go out, you go up or down.
And I agree, we live in an era where big infrastructure projects no longer happen, so something that should be built up in the next 10-20 years would take 50-60 years here, which is a very sad truth about how far our country has fallen.
The places where there is land around freeways to build rail would not have an issue finding other land to build on. Most metropolitan areas don't have any spaces around freeways because the freeway has already expanded to fit the full space available because demand is high in the area.
Did you see the cost to build the tunnel in Boston and how long it took? Now imagine doing that in every metropolitan area in the country, but every project would be even larger in scale.
This would take probably 50-60 years to complete, cost hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions of dollars up front, plus ongoing subsidize in perpetuity all while not being as good as air travel, which is already paid for.
You do realize that what we did in Boston is what we did in every American city with interstates. Get over the whining, and realize that any large infrastructure project is going to cost tons of money.
Most freeways have space above them. When you can't go out, you go up or down.
And I agree, we live in an era where big infrastructure projects no longer happen, so something that should be built up in the next 10-20 years would take 50-60 years here, which is a very sad truth about how far our country has fallen.
Building elevated track exponentially increases the cost of the project.
The country hasn't fallen, things just cost money and we have more important things to spend the money on.
You do realize that what we did in Boston is what we did in every American city with interstates. Get over the whining, and realize that any large infrastructure project is going to cost tons of money.
The question is will this large infrastructure project be worth it?
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