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Sure, a half hour drive might not be anything, but that then means the trip is now 2-2.5 hours, not including the commuting on the other side of the trip. The time adds up and airline transportation for these regional trips are not any more or less effective than HSR commutes.
and how long would a high speed rail trip be between the two cities?
Airports are not a one time fee, they cost money to maintain and upgrade. Then of course there is air traffic, the more planes there are coming and going, the more dangerous the skies around airports get. The amount of close calls they have at LAX would make you never want to fly into LAX.
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Almost every downtown I have been to has car rental places downtown and it wouldn't be hard to locate a HSR station near local rail and transit lines as well as rental car companies.
They have rental companies somewhere?? For a business traveler they won't have time to locate them. What I am saying is have rental kiosks like the airports do so a person can rent a car for the day/half day. There seems to be an assumption that the travelers want/need to go to a city location when quite often their destination is away from the city center.
Airports are not a one time fee, they cost money to maintain and upgrade. Then of course there is air traffic, the more planes there are coming and going, the more dangerous the skies around airports get. The amount of close calls they have at LAX would make you never want to fly into LAX.
All these arguments apply to HSR, but hsr rail has an upfront fee in the hundreds of billions of not trillions of dollars, maintaining air travel does not.
I am not against HSR completly, I am against it now because it doesn't make fiscal sense and I have yet to see an argument to the contrary.
Not until we do years and years of ecological and environmental studies to assure that no endangered blind mole rats or some micro-organism will not be displaced or disturbed on the process.
But I assure you....there are NEVER environmental concerns when lefties want a project completed.
They have rental companies somewhere?? For a business traveler they won't have time to locate them. What I am saying is have rental kiosks like the airports do so a person can rent a car for the day/half day. There seems to be an assumption that the travelers want/need to go to a city location when quite often their destination is away from the city center.
As in depending on where they are most needed. If there is a HSR station in a downtown, you can bet a rental car company would want to be in that station or right next to it. Sure, not everyone is going to a city center they are visiting....though more often than not, they are actually going into that city center or inner city as a destination.
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