1ºDonald Sherwood Did you hit your head? You're talking about getting somewhere within an hour or two, then cross country, then an hour commute. None of these are the same use case. People going to work are not the only people who can use trains.
You realize it would be far more efficient than the trucking industry right? An industry currently struggling to hire. In countries with actual decent trains, it is both faster and cheaper than flying.
What about vacations? Did you forget the amount of time wasted in TSA? Sitting waiting for clearance to take off? You don't need to get there 2 hours early for a train.
2ºJames Tauber I’m not saying it’s superior to car travel but an alternative, like buses, subways, ferries, air and all the other modes of transportation. It wouldn’t work everywhere but I don’t see a problem where there are already rails and stations to have more passenger service. Where I live in N Cal we do have a train station but Amtrak stops here in the middle of the night and I believe one other day time.
I have had friends do cross country trips and across Canada and said they were beautiful train rides. I’m going to try to do the one in Canada. I like to travel so I’m open to doing different things.
3ºDebi Mills Snider you would have to convince me how it is superior to car travel. Trains are generally slower than car travel, let alone air travel. The pick up and drop offs are very limited.
The infrastructure in this country makes train travel a novelty, at best. In nearly all situations, it is the most impractical way to travel.
I'm know the solution from the left is to follow California's example and spend hundreds of billions of tax payer money into choo choo trains and tracks.
Why? What does it do better than existing forms of travel, that would justify that investment?
4ºIt is clear that israel has in fact moved to the third stage after its lamentable failure of the first and second stages: failure to move despite the destruction, failure to eliminate the Qassams, failure to free the prisoners and failure to land war.
With American advice and aid, he returned to the war which he mastered well, where he had the elements of power: intelligence and aviation, and where nothing moral put him off: an assassination in Syria, a assassination in Lebanon, an assassination in Iraq and a brutal bombing in Iran.
Israel, desperate and miserable, has opened the doors to a dangerous battle whose price it will not bear: assassinations and terrorist operations.
5ºTwo major steps to better public transit everywhere:
cut all federal, state, local handouts to car companies and to individual car owners. WE have for decades given handouts to individuals and to car companies. End them.
Institute a per mile driving fee, partly so that EV owners can have the joy of paying for the infrastructure they are using. Set the per mile fee exponentially according to motor vehicle weight. The Escalade owner shouldn't just pay a higher registration and be done, they put more wear on the roads, more danger to everyone especially pedestrians, and more pollution into our air--charge them for it with each mile driven. Half of the PMDF goes to repair the roads, including road diets to cut back on overbuilt level of car infra that we have and obviously can't maintain. And 1/2 goes to public transit in the areas it was collected, per county, city, metro.
6ºNick Sestrac If you would have paid attention, the comparison was made
for the Japanese bullet train. So if you think the railroads are going to build a tunnel through the Sierra mountains, the Rocky mountains, the Smoky mountains, the Adirondack mountains, the one who sounds ridiculous is you. I don't know what you're referring to that is happening all over the world but Japan is the only one with the bullet train. There are no other trains that go that fast. Americans are quite capable of building a railroad because they've been doing it for 200 years. I used the word "capable" because apt really doesn't apply. You can't invest billions of dollars into a railroad that 300 people are going to ride on. I don't know what you learned in high school but it certainly wasn't economics. There are short excursions on luxury railroads and they have been in use for decades.
But they're limited to under a 1000 miles and they travel at highway speeds. Get yourself an education before you comment.
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