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Posted by Fytton on Tue Sep 11 04:37:09 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Rail Blue on Mon Sep 10 14:09:09 2007. You're still not adopting the TGV/Shinkansen concept of a brand new line for high-speed rail, you're still thinking about improving the existing network in the UK. I got castigated on this board before for doing that - I wastold that we Brits were being unambitious, etc. So I took your 'Impossible Ideal' map and tried to see what we could do by putting brand new lines alongside motorways. Your alleged capacity problem between London and Watford Gap Junction, for example, would be avoided because the new line would be designed from the start with sufficient capacity to carry trains to both the northwest and he northeast. Similarly, you are still not embracing the TGV idea (also adopted by Amtrak, actually!) of having out-of-town stations that behave more like airports. I admit my Manchester/Liverpool Parkway idea was a bit extreme, but I did only offer it as an alternative. However, if carefully placed in relation to the road network, it could serve most of greater Liverpool (except the Wirral bit) and the whole west side of greater Manchester quite well as a park-and-ride station. |
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