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Tomorrowland meets Texas - Futuristic freight system planned for I-35 corridor
Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^
| June 6, 2012
Posted on 06/06/2012 2:44:37 PM PDT by Zakeet
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This will never work because it relies on the private sector rather than government handouts!
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:44:46 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
They’d be better off to build a canal.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:47:54 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Zakeet
"....get their goods across the state for
pennies on the dollar compared to what it costs to haul freight in tractor-trailers"
LOL, let's the accounting on that. More like hundreds of pennies
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:49:33 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Zakeet
We already have that.. its called “TRAINS”...
Like in choo choo trains..
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:50:25 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Paladin2
the canal/barge system has been a reliable transportation system all over the world for hundreds of years..
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:50:42 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: Zakeet
Teamsters and other union thugs - hardest hit
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:50:42 PM PDT
by
lormand
(A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
To: Paladin2
Theyd be better off to build a canal. Takes too much land compared to elevated (unipost) tracks.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:51:14 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(Another day. Another small provocation. Another step closer.)
To: Zakeet
Just think how many Mexicans can be crammed into a cargo container and how fast they can be sent north.
I'm all for alleviating the traffic problems on I-35, but this would need some heavy-duty safeguards.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:52:22 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: elpadre
Water transport is still the cheapest per ton mile.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:53:20 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: hosepipe
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:53:33 PM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
To: Paladin2
“Theyd be better off to build a canal.”
Wouldn’t it be pretty hard to elevate all that water?
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:53:33 PM PDT
by
ngat
To: Zakeet
What Texan could possibly argue with installing a full-length shade cover over I-35? LOL
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:54:53 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: ngat
If they had enough traffic, it wouldn’t take much water.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:55:03 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
For just dollars on the dollar.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:55:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Paladin2
They have barges that go 60 miles an hour?
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:58:40 PM PDT
by
ngat
To: Paladin2
Theyd be better off to build a canal. And how many sets of locks over that 250-mile stretch between Dallas and Austin? I-35 climbs higher above sea level as you head north.
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posted on
06/06/2012 2:58:52 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: ngat
Wouldnt it be pretty hard to elevate all that water? Not hard in a technical sense, just expensive to build and time-consuming to use. Canal locks don't exactly make for speedy transport.
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posted on
06/06/2012 3:02:47 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: ngat
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posted on
06/06/2012 3:02:52 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: Paladin2
Water transport is still the cheapest per ton mile.
Followed by rail.
The artist conception shows single containers being moved and that can't be as economical as a train hauling hundreds of containers at the same time. Claiming that they'll be able to move them at 60 mph doesn't impress me much either. Aside from raw food, very little freight is that time sensitive.
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posted on
06/06/2012 3:06:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Zakeet
It is an interesting idea of creative thinking. You take the existing paradigm and shift it or turn it inside out. Instead of worrying about mass high-speed passenger transport, you apply the new technology to freight transport, and let the people continue travelling as they do now.
Still, it does seem a little wacky. Sending freight one car at a time along electric rails? A conventional train might move a lot more stuff with less energy consumption in a reasonable period if there's no urgency. If there is urgency, we have other ways to get the goods where they have to go.
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06/06/2012 3:08:11 PM PDT
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