Posted on 10/30/2009 6:26:47 AM PDT by Willie Green
“No different than taking a plane, only much less hassle with reservations/security and trains make more convenient stops along the way. For trips less than 500 miles, high-speed rail is much faster than taking a plane.”
And cars destroy them at that distance.
A real rail system once flourished in this country. And, although it may never be rebuilt, that will be due more to a failure of vision than some number crunching budgeteers.
Light rail goes in fixed limited locations. Buses are flexible and can be rerouted as transit patterns change.
hmmm...something just doesn't seem to fit together too well here...
Light rail goes in fixed limited locations. Buses are flexible and can be rerouted as transit patterns change.
Yes, light rail is best suited for those high-volume local commuter routes that don't change.
Buses are best suited to less popular routes where ridership is more unpredictable.
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I can well imagine and if possible would not of built the system.
The highway system modeled on socialist Adolph Hitler, capitalized and pulled the economic rug out of the cities, which were repositories of hundreds of years of free market investment.
It, highways, caused by government force massive economic misallocation.
Big thing in North NJ was the Light Rail System. They pass empty half the time. Huge waste of money;
I’ve considered and rejected the idea of joining the Libertarian Party several times. At the local and state level I have voted for individual libertarians when I felt the Republican was too liberal, but the party as a whole supports some things I don’t agree with. On the other hand the same is becoming true of the Repubicans. I’ll have to see what happens in 2010.
US Population densities remain far below Europe’s, and that’s why you can;t look to hem as the model. Bos-Wash works because you have major cities lined up one after the other (as in Europe).
And in the US, the cities themselves are radically sprawled (extrme example is metropolitan LA, which has 5 airports for a reason).
Another reason is the distance: 3 times as much distance requires three times as much railbed to lay and maintain. costs costs costs.
Koln to Frankfurt is more like Chicago to Gary Indiana than it is like Chicago to Pittsburgh.
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