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Dallas metro area and Houston metro area themselves are about 13-14 million people. Add Austin to the mix and you're close. And why do you assume Taiwan's high speed rail would be covering 100% of the population?
I neither assumed nor said any such thing. In addition to inane comparisons, now you are now injecting dishonesty.
Makes sense to who? Makes sense for what? Is private sector the proper means to handle everything that is in public interest?
Good point the private sector and public interest are on opposite teams. If all the right wing whiners about socialism would just stop using "socialist" public services like roads, bridges, water, sewage, police, fire dept, police, garbage, snow removal and return their social security and medicare benefits and stop giving blank checks to the socialist military we'd be in great shape. HSR might be worth it just in terms of energy efficiency and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Personally I think we should start with making regular speed rail more efficient but as long as they're spending it here building and fixing things instead of over there killing and destroying things I'm for it.
a combination of reduced carbon emissions, congestion, and traffic-related deaths will provide an extra $21.63 million worth of benefits a year from HSR as well as the necessary commuting infrastructure for all Americans to lead sustainable lives.
Train travel is becoming a very popular mode of Transport....during the summer ppl use trains to go to the beach....
People waiting for the Coastal train...on the Friday /weekend the trains heading to the Mountains or Beaches are jammed.
Bay Head train (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42178139@N06/4932978931/ - broken link) by Nexis4Jersey09 (http://www.flickr.com/people/42178139@N06/ - broken link), on Flickr
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People waiting for the Western Train ...
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People waiting for a Amtrak Vermonter train...
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Why don't we put a tax of xxx amount per mile on Amtrack ticket prices? The revenue could be used to fund the expansion of the system...and perhaps even HSR.
Why don't we put a tax of xxx amount per mile on Amtrack ticket prices? The revenue could be used to fund the expansion of the system...and perhaps even HSR.
The same could be said about Roads? Large Scale Projects should be funded by PPP's...
Do you have something that says otherwise such as total expenditures vs revenues?, this is indicating those using the roads are already subsidizing the buses and other mass transit.
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Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake
At this time our highway infrastructure is in need of rebuilding and enhancement. Federal fuel tax is collected at a rate of 18.4 cents per gallon on gas, and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel. Nearly 1/3 of that already goes to subsidize mass transit. Seems mass transit users are unwilling to pay their own way, and politicians will do anything to buy votes. If the money collected from highway users was spend on, say...highways, maybe we wouldn't have to use "stimulus" funds to keep them up.
What are the actual operating costs of HSR, and what would ticket fees have to be to make it a break-even proposition? It shouldn't be that hard to calcluate that. If HSR can not operate at a cost user's are willing to bear, it should be DOA. Past mass transit projects have been money pits that non-users end up supporting. Enough of that!
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