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Re: Palmdale to LV High/Low Speed Rail Link Closer to Being Built |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jun 13 12:37:06 2012, in response to Re: Palmdale to LV High/Low Speed Rail Link Closer to Being Built, posted by merrick1 on Wed Jun 13 06:50:03 2012. It's not supposed to be a commuter trainIf it runs at commuter train frequency, then what is it? CA doesn't have that many vacationers. Did they ask about intermediate trips? Trains make intermediate stops Each intermediate stop slows down average speed and negates the advantage of a high-speed train. Besides, the CAHSR website is telling a bunch of hooey when they cite a 1:24 running time between LA and Fresno (255 miles by rail), because that's a 182-mph average speed. You are not going to get that if you stop at Palmdale, Bakersfield and Visalia/Tulare/Harford stations; it'll be a 145-mph average speed at best, which expands that trip to 1:45 (ideally). If you really want a laugh, look at the computerized "visualizations" with the Tehachapi wind farms and the 30'+ track centers . . . The chief concern is not the train itself. It's the outrageous costs, that are so inflated that it's about ten times the cost per mile what the French would spend on the same kind of system. |
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