And those numbers prove it doesn’t work.
No, those numbers are only your "deployment" costs $26.67
And that Amtrak ticket of yours was $134.
So we still have a $107.33 profit margin traveling from LA to NO.
And now it only takes 9½ hours, so we don't need to buy a superliner roomette.
You need to pay attention better.
These are all your numbers.
You really should make some kind of effort to understand them better.
Willie, are you really this dense?
The current ticket price of $134 doesn’t cover the costs (in fact, it’s $32 under). And then you have to ADD the new deployment costs to it.
Meaning if you have 15 MILLION RIDERS A DAY (which is about 210 times MORE than you do now), and the deployment cost per rider is “only” $26.67, then you have a price of:
$134 + $32 + $26.67 = $192.67
At a minimum. Just to break even.
And that’s assuming an astronomical increase in ridership to spread the capital costs around. If daily ridership goes to 1.5 million (21 times more than today’s ridership) then your capital costs per rider are $266.67, and that train ride becomes $432.67.
And we haven’t even added the interest on the bonds to pay for deployment (which would be another $1.2 trillion, in addition to the $2 trillion for deployment).
Or is your contention that operational costs are zero once the trains are installed? Everyone works for free, and there is no wear-and-tear on the trains and tracks, they run on sunshine and hope so no cost for power, etc.
Seriously, can you NOT follow this? The deployment costs ALONE are huge, and would only ADD to the cost of existing tickets (which do not cover the costs as-is).