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Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Apr 26 02:33:42 2012, in response to Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail, posted by Jersey Mike on Wed Apr 25 13:47:52 2012. but Will D won't listen.I've listened plenty, it's just that your entire scheme amounts to wishful thinking. The freight railroads don't want to touch high speed rail on their tracks with a 20 foot pole, any passenger operator who has done their homework will know to avoid Tier II like the plague, and by the time you upgrade a freight line to 150mph operation you're going to be shelling out the same money as a 220mph dedicated line. Trying to force a 'fast regional' service into being does not work on any level. If you're going to cheap out on the capital costs and run slower then your market share will suck and we get to play the subsidy lottery for the next few dozen years before they get fed up and kill the line. And again, if you buck up at the beginning and pay for 150mph operation then you may achieve a slim operating surplus, but it'd come at a cost equal to a 220mph dedicated line which would turn an actual profit by running faster. European and Japanese HSR works because there are high quality regional transit networks they can plug into. As Wado stated, that's not true. In Europe I know DB has car share and car rental facilities at their stations. You can book the car as part of your trip, and they'll hold it in the unlikely event your train is delayed. Once people have to drive somewhere to catch a train its almost as easy to drive to the airport. That makes no sense. Why would I drive further (and for most Californians the airport will be further than the HSR station) only to wait in a security line, then wait the prescribed 45 min to an hour at the terminal when I could drive to a HSR station and be there before the flight would leave? |
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