High speed rail in the NE
#51
I completely agree with you, we have to think about the future. In a near future, if not already, roads will be saturated -the air too-, making travel unpleasant and inefficient. We also have to think about pollution.
US politicians sooner or later will have to start thinking about the HSR.
US politicians sooner or later will have to start thinking about the HSR.
#52
A 1000+ mile route stops in dozens of cities along it's route though, creating dozens of possible city pairs to travel between or make connections to other services. Most pax don't travel from end to end but make shorter trips on the possible city pairs, many being 200-400 miles apart. Therefore one single seat will sell multiple times on one single run. This way, many smaller towns can be served too, where it is often very expensive to fly.
#53
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I don't think anyone would suggest an airliner make 27 stops in small towns aside from a handful of EAS routes that make two stops. Completely different mode.
#54
Anyone who wants to understand the problem of HSR in the NE needs to read this study. Cars are still, by huge margins, the travel mode of choice.
http://nec-commission.com/app/upload...rt_Website.pdf
http://nec-commission.com/app/upload...rt_Website.pdf
#55
We were 14 hours late on what was advertised as a 23 hour trip.
What makes high speed rail work - in the countries it does work - is nonstop travel between exceedingly large and population dense city centers that are within a few hundred miles of each other up far enough apart to make the speed necessary. We simply don’t have that here.
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