79% of Travelers Would Prefer High-Speed Rail Travel Over Air Travel (regular, dollars)
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You commute by train and would rather drive? Why do you keep beating yourself up? Highways too jammed up? I have never ridden the Acela but have taken many intercity train trips. I enjoy the ability to get up you don't get when driving and better room than on a plane. The train is not attractive for NY to Houston, but if you could get from Chicago to St Louis in three hours by train, it would be very attractive.
I've taken several coast to coast rides. PA to FL for example.. It was a horrible experience.. Just BORING.. Sitting there, waiting, and waiting.. We spent 28 hours on a train.. The only benefit was that we could sleep while it traveled rather than staying at a hotel, but a plane would have been better..
Perhaps you found a way to get HSR funded: put it under the Defense budget, making sure that it serves military bases. Of course troop movements would have priority and it could be commandeered in the event of a national emergency.
Nobody has a problem with building high speed rail in the crowded Northeast Corridor. Mostly because the Northeast Corridor is different than almost everywhere else.
Nobody has a problem with building high speed rail in the crowded Northeast Corridor. Mostly because the Northeast Corridor is different than almost everywhere else.
Now come on!
Was that the point we were debating?
And no, north east corridor is not the only one "different". San Francisco-LA-San Diego, Dallas-Austin/Houston make as much sense. High Speed Rail is about connecting major cities, just like airlines. No? Heck, Taiwan as a nation has a population barely more than Dallas, Austin and Houston combined and has a high speed rail system in place. But somehow, America is the only country that can't afford or do it?
If it make sense, then private sector will be building it.
If government get involve, then you can bet some special interest is interest in it. This probably going to cost you and me a lot of billions.
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