Amtrak won’t be able to run the new Acela trains more than 90 mph, except on a few miles in rural Maryland where they can hit 100 mph. The current tracks can’t safely accommodate a higher speed.
Not true at all. Read Post #26.
>Amtrak won’t be able to run the new Acela trains more than 90 mph, except on a few miles in rural Maryland where they can hit 100 mph. The current tracks can’t safely accommodate a higher speed.
Yeah, people who think that there’s a new high-speed boom coming are out of their minds. Lefties can’t have high-speed rail AND companies bulldozing through municipal and city zoning issues at the same time.
If you’re going to put infrastructure in like Europe or Japan, you’ve got clear massive amounts of land that would compete with zoning and existing roads, and that takes years maybe decades of bureaucracy.
That’s not the case. Much of the former Pennsylvania Railroad corridor has been 125 mph since the 1980s. Their big excuse for not expanding the running of the original Acelas at 150 mph was the condition of the former PRR wires and the fact that they are variable-tension and would sag in hot weather; all this time they have never converted to constant-tension wires.