Would you ride a high speed train from Atlanta to Nashville or Chicago?

The Newnan Times-Herald ^ | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | editorial

[Da Coyote]

Hey, might be a good way to get privacy - since I’d be accompanied by only two or three other suckers with too much time on their hands.

[i_dont_chat]

Not me.

[End Times Sentinel]

Hmmmm... depends on the season I guess. If it was hot, I'd probably go to Chicago, but if it was cold, Tennessee would be my choice.

[TSgt]

If I were there, I would take any mode of transportation to get the hell out of Atlanta but would prefer different destinations.

[RightGeek]

Let's play trains with the taxpayers' money!

[chris37]

I would not want to visit any of these cities no matter how I got there.

[Non-Sequitur]

As miserable as flying is these days I’d certainly consider a high-speed train.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

No!

[smokingfrog]

You’d have to hog tie me to get me to go to Chicago.

[jessduntno]

“What we have heard this week is that Georgia and Tennessee are applying for a $34 million federal grant to continue the development of high-speed rail service from Atlanta to Nashville.”

If that was a sound idea, VC guys would be lining up to back it ... all this money sitting around and no one spending is not a coincidence. These projects are just “union fuel” and nothing else.

[tcrlaf]

Atlanta-Washington, Atlanta-Savannah, Atlanta-Orlando would be high demand routes, but what the hell, it’s just TAXPAYER MONEY!

[Steely Tom]

High-speed service from one excrement-hole to another.

[poobear]

No one will be riding or driving anywhere except those with vouchers and subsidies. We’re broke and unemployed!

[arthurus]

I wouldn't ride a high speed train or a bicycle or anything else to Nashville or Chicago from Atlanta or anywhere else. Chicago is for obvious reasons. Nashville is a beautiful small very southern city but it is surrounded by many square miles of nasty slums, illegal Mexican and indigenous. I did the Fair there a couple of times and traveled around the city after. I won't go back.

[benewton]

I understand the limitations of modern “education”, and the limitations of the news “reporters”, but doesn’t anybody remember an ancient invention called the airplane?

When I travel, I’m not interested in views, WIFI, etc.
All I want is to get from point A to point B in the minimum possible time... Yes, I hate the “security” screening, but the plane normally does 500 knots, and they’re already pushing screening for the train.

Just me, of course, YMMV.

[FrankR]

Not interested...not enough traffic to justify the expenditure....

[truthguy]

As miserable as flying is these days I’d certainly consider a high-speed train.

No you wouldn't. Not after you've seen the types of people who are on these trains. You would be on the same train with the scum of the earth.

[discostu]

No.

[Blueflag]

Atlanta to Greenville to Charlotte is as big a commerce link (if not bigger) than Atlanta to Chattanooga to Nashville.

Or even better, Tuscaloosa to Birmingham to Auburn to Atlanta to Athens ...

**IF** one could actually hop on a train NEAR one’s house or office, and get ‘there’ in reasonable comfort and personal safety at a cost lower than airfare, it might be a good idea.

Right now I can fly round trip to ORD fr ATL for less $$ (and less time) than a ONE WAY trip to ORD by train (plus train changes).

**IF** this was available, who is the target customer? A business traveler doesn’t have the time to take ALL DAY to get to Chicago from Atlanta (pick your cities). IS this just a high speed, overly costly MARTA?