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1 - Car users need to pay their fair share. If gasoline also included the amount to keep roads going, carbon clean up, accidents,etc than we would close in on the Europe rate per gallon which would drive railroad travel.
What share do they pay today? Only 60% of gasoline taxes goes toward roads.
Northeastern High Speed / Intercity Network Size : 2,470 Mi+ Lines : 7 trunk lines + with 12 Feeders
Stations : 190+ (Feeders factored in) Projected Ridership : 127 Million a year or 350,000 daily (Feeders factored in)
Top Speed on Trunk lines : 220mph (350Km/h)
Top Speed on Secondary / Feeder lines : 125mph (201Km/h) Population Served by 2050 : 80.3 Million
Cost : 150 Billion $ (Upgrades to the Exisiting Networked added in , so 50/50) Projected Revenue by 2035 : 4.5 Billion
The Upgrades to the current system and the new feeder lines will cost : 54 Billion , the New NEC will cost 50 billion and Private Proposals 45-50 Billion.... The Way this will be funded is likely , 50% Federal , 30% State and 20% Private at least for the public plans...
I posted the stats and the pictures and the videos...
Which post, please. I guess I missed them.
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