Posted on 09/22/2016 1:37:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Did it ever dawn on you that you are the whipping post? Geez, you must be a riot at your visits to personal motivational seminars! But maybe you think those are too much of a downer to even try.
FReeper lore.........
Love it...........
Nope, just a very easy to maintain race car. At least they had the guts to put the rotary into production.
A major portion of my business is reverse engineering but with that said, mag-lev is not rocket science because you will find it in some of our amusement parks.
Having shunted back and forth between DC and NYC in the past for more than three decades I find it hard to believe that Amtrak stops now are of 30 to 60 seconds in duration. Those times are faster than NYC subway stops as I recall.
What’s your route?
I'm counting the actual time at the at the platform with the doors open, not the pulling in/out. People are lined up at the door, they step off and that takes well under a minute, then people get on, again well under a minute and the train goes while people walk around looking for a seat. Maybe it's 2 minutes. It's not more under most circumstances.
So yours is a basic commuter train run with very few if any passengers with baggage. Got it.
Thanks for the reply.
Maybe I’m guilty of that. LOL!
P.S. — I would have no problem investing public money in infrastructure that actually supports commerce and industry in the U.S. I have no interest in spending one dime to build a high-speed rail link between two of the biggest Marxist sh!t-holes and least productive cities in North America.
The bigger problem by far is the fact that there are ancient bridges and tunnels that you have to slow waaay down to go through, by law, as well as local zoning restrictions for safety and/or noise reasons that also make it slow down. So even though it can go something like 100 MPH it's only permitted to actually go just a little faster than the older trains. So unless the japanese want to pay to rebuild all those old tunnels and bridges, and reroute around the towns, this project makes no sense.
Stop bringing logic into this. There are billions of dollars in payola at stake.
That’ll be really cool when it gets going in Japan.
In the US, it doesn’t make much sense from a business perspective. People whose travel is time sensitive can fly. Others can drive, take a bus, or take a train.
Public money, absolutely not. Put competition to work and stand back to watch in amazement what we are capable of. The only thing we need from the public is their tacit support. A real leader will get that support. With it, and with all of the money coming back into this country from Trump’s tax plan, there will be plenty of opportunities to have that money and more pay for it as long as those who invested can get their ROI.
Japan doesn't have "immigrants" blowing things up.
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T-Bone, you must be an old Confederate. Didn’t know there were any left, out West we don’t hear such things.
I think its partly dyslexia or something, cuz my brain immediately goes to “Lincoln”.
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