Originally Posted by
Rascal
Have you seen high speed rail in Europe or Japan? ACELA is not high speed by any strech of imagination. Japanese high speed rail goes as fast as 200 mph vs 75mph that ACELA does. 2 hour train ride from NYC to DC sure beats a 1 hour flight when add transportation time to and from the airport and 1 hour wait for TSA screening.
You are absolutely fooling yourself if you think that the same government which pays $50B for high speed rail wont use that same system as an excuse to employ an additional 10,000 TSA screeners with cancer machines and rubber gloves.