Ask yourself....just how many New Yorkers are begging to go spend a weekend in Chicago? Or how many Chicago folks are begging to go and spend a weekend in New York? It’s a joke. Go and imagine the cost of this round-trip ticket? It’ll have to run at least $300 (my humble opinion).
Now, the positive of this? If you did want to make this trip....you could avoid TSA and the whole airport rountine. You could probably even go and dissolve every single flight between the two cities.
The only corridor where I think there is enough traffic to pay for something like this is NY to Washington. Beyond that....any high-speed rail effort with economic pay-off....is bogus.
If it weren’t for sicko Leftists and our imported terrorists, you could do away with TSA and the whole airport routine.
Instead we’ll have to screen out these two groups no matter what the venue.
I’m not sure what the prevailing fee would have to be, but right now the fees are pretty decent for aircraft. This will have to compete with aircraft.
Can it, and turn a profit? I don’t see many metropolitan transit systems making money. They get massive infusions of tax dollars to build and maintain them.
Perhaps someone else sees it differently.
the way airlines have become so difficult to travel in, yes, if the train was modern I would take a train to Chicago.