rickair7777

No he's right. Shorter distances and very high population density makes rail a much better fit in Europe, Asia, etc.

The vast distances in the US mean that even a fast train quickly loses it's appeal as the economic costs of transit time (to the railroad and the pax) mount.

For shorter distances, Americans just drive their own car (Europeans and Asians are very likely to not even own a car). You could of course eliminate personal vehicles in the US, but the government would have to do that at gunpoint.

Also the infrastructure is a huge challenge, existing rail is cheap and more importantly has the historical right of way to run freight trains through your neighborhood at midnight. High speed rail would need different lines with a different physical layout than convenentional rail so they would need imminent domain and lots of it. Once they got past the lawsuits and NIMBYs, it would be very, very expensive. The flight levels are actually free...

White Cap

17 pages on a "proposal" to find solutions to a planet with 8 billion people walking around. Zero pages when Congress was pushing through a tax plan that is now affecting all of us.

GuardPolice

Problem solved.


GP

OOfff

You call her names because she has disagreements with you about how the country should progress? Are you a child?

at6d

Now she says Hispanics should be exempt from immigration laws....

The government can only give you something by taking it from someone else. The money that funds the nation is OUR money; it does not belong to the government.

There is NO FREE LUNCH.

Equality of opportunity is one thing—equality of outcome is another.

Slaphappy

We are happy with the tax plan.

Captainbfv

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velosnow

But that wasn't one of Hannity or Rush's talking...errr yelling...points so here we are as usual being distracted & divided.

Air travel as we know it isn't going to change due to a non-binding proposal so everyone can calm right down. We have bigger fish to fry...Norwegian type outfits, single pilot ops, ME3, anti-union politicians, gub'mint shutdowns, scope issues, world economy, cabotage, the list goes on.

ChecklistMonkey

Do you know what the vice president did before he got elected to Congress?

ChecklistMonkey

That's not what Rush says. He says panic. The Commies are on the doorstep.

I mean, someone on this site even suggested she'll be assassinated..the rational right...