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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jan 14 15:40:57 2011, in response to Re: Amtrak's ACS-64 design, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Fri Jan 14 15:33:29 2011. I agree, but there's also the example in Europe, where high-speed electric rail has actually been made competitive with air travel in the 500-mile range. If there were ever a political consensus on the need to build a HSR network here at home (a 4-hour NYC-Chicago trip, for example, could compete with flying, even though the distance traveled is more than 500 miles), and we found the economic muscle to do it, it would radically change the way Americans get from city to city. It would be all about selecting the right city pairs and weaving them into a comprehensive network, the way SNCF did 30 years ago.Cheap oil is NOT going to be a reality of our future lives. IMHO, the time to get started on a true HSR network here, was ten years ago. |
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