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Posted by Fytton on Mon Sep 10 05:01:50 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Charles G on Sun Sep 9 11:58:43 2007. 'It is worth considering, though, that for many of the corridors you describe HSR is not competing with air travel but rather with auto travel.'That's an important point, and Americans do seem to be more willing to contemplate very long drives than Europeans are. A drive of 300 miles in a day isn't bad - say six hours inclusive of one or two pit-stops. But I wouldn't want to do the round trip in the day, which I could do by air. And not all possible journeys are provided with high-speed highways all the way. New Zealand, where I had a holiday in January of this year, has virtually none outside of Auckland and its suburbs, and I never planned trips of more than 300 miles in a day, despite empty roads. |
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