Posted on 10/03/2009 6:18:08 AM PDT by Willie Green
A bullet train will be a huge terrorist target. Screening will be just as bad as at the airport. Blowing up or derailing a train as it passes through a city or town at high speed would result in horrendous casualties. Strat with the 600+ just on the train.
I could think of other things I’d blow dough on beside a giant train set. ;-)
I hope you're not planning on buying more of those subprime mortgages.
Jorge Arbusto already bought enough of those to last 5 generations.
I suppose the trucking companies and the auto drivers don't pay gas tax to support the roads.
Just wait ‘til the next round of subprimes come due.. even Goldman Sachs will rue the day..
Your argument is not exaclty valid. Airports aren’t built by private companies, while they may operate the airlines, those airports you were flying in and out of then as now were built and operated by government.
Citing air travel as a testamony to pure capitalism is misinformed. The vast majority of infrastructure that is utilized by commercial aviation is the result of government spending and operation, not private enterprise.
I like the Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City-Denver route better. Lots of flat, open land and less regulatory hoops to jump through outside of Cook County.
Did a study on this already.
Passenger density/mile: Tokyo-Osaka 168k
Passenger density/mile: LA-San Francisco 52k
LA/San Fran is about one and a half times the distance of Tokyo-Osaka, and about the third of the people. Generous to estimate ridership at about a quarter, or about as much as the Nigaata shinkansen. This one is a sunk cost, in that it is an unprofitable line.
federal money.
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