Its a great idea until they take your land to build it...like they are trying to do here in Texas right now. The price of a plane ticket to get from Dallas to Houston with an increase in the time it takes to get there. No thanks.
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Assuming airfare stays the same and airlines stay in business after all this
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Would be great to at least have in the Northeast. Not sure it would be practical cross-country, but likes fr California to Vegas or up and down from Florida? Definitely.
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For movement of goods + people
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I would absolutely travel a lot more by rail if it were a high speed line. The Acela Express hits 150mph (in some areas). Having a 220mph line zipping up and down the east coast, and even the north east corridor would be fantastic!
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Or they could just let me drive the way I like to ;-)
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How would this beat the volume, speed, safety, and cost of commercial air travel?
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If trains are the next big idea in cross-country travel, maybe we can also upgrade our telecom infrastructure with a network of wires that will travel alongside the tracks. On it, we would send messages electronically using a specialized code. Maybe a series of dots and dashes.
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Jack I hate to break it to you but high speed trail has to be in a a separate dedicated line. The money needed to purchase that land in the north East alone would be the biggest real estate purchase ever. That’s before a shovel hits the ground
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Not to mention the environmentalists who would go ballistic about the "ecological" impact. Yes, I know they say they want rail, but we all know it's a NIMBY proposition with those people.
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