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Originally Posted by Jkgourmet
How many people travel frequently between Raleigh and Richmond? And why?
The ultimate object isn't Raleigh to Richmond, it's Charlotte to DC. Charlotte to Atlanta is far off. Right now the two holdups on the Charlotte to DC run are the new Gateway station in Charlotte and the Raleigh to Richmond leg. It's not Acela, it's the precursor to electrification. That will need new tracks. Cutting time to the Northest corridor is the name of the game.
Amtrak has been wanting higher speed rail to Charlotte since before the great recession. Bev got as much money towards this as she could. It wasn't quite enough. This is one of the last two steps.
The ultimate object isn't Raleigh to Richmond, it's Charlotte to DC. Charlotte to Atlanta is far off. Right now the two holdups on the Charlotte to DC run are the new Gateway station in Charlotte and the Raleigh to Richmond leg. It's not Acela, it's the precursor to electrification. That will need new tracks. Cutting time to the Northest corridor is the name of the game.
Amtrak has been wanting higher speed rail to Charlotte since before the great recession. Bev got as much money towards this as she could. It wasn't quite enough. This is one of the last two steps.
Tickets on Acela are more than an airline ticket and it would take 3x as long at best, and you'd have to build out the infrastructure.
Charlotte to DC is done 6x a day currently, 9x a day pre-COVID. And that is just the directs. 1:20 block.
It's done at a greater frequency, faster, and cheaper, and no reason to build out infrastructure.
I'd not a hater of rail but I just don't see it being competitive. Especially as we move toward hybrid and alternative energy aircraft, the emissions aspect goes away.
Crap! That rail line runs through my back yard. If they widen the right-of-way 25' on both sides as has been proposed, the fence will be about 5' from my back door. Here's the map of it running through Wake Forest
Crap! That rail line runs through my back yard. If they widen the right-of-way 25' on both sides as has been proposed, the fence will be about 5' from my back door. Here's the map of it running through Wake Forest
How'd you get to that map? I've been digging thru the NCDOT website for like 30 minutes and can't seem to locate a page that gets me to there. I'm interested in a different stretch of the corridor.
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