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Re: Amtrak may Lengthen Acela Express Trainsets to ''Meet Demand'' |
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Posted by WillD on Wed Aug 27 23:31:14 2008, in response to Re: Amtrak may Lengthen Acela Express Trainsets to ''Meet Demand'', posted by Charles G on Wed Aug 27 20:18:04 2008. Indeed we could, but recall that the Interstate Highways were built before the property around them had much value. The land is much more expensive today -- due in no small part to the construction of those highways.In the Northeast there are at least a few right of ways which could be used to minimize impact and reduce land acquisition costs. There is cheap land out there, but for the most part it isn't where HSR would be most effective. Not true at all. Land costs in California's Central Valley are extremely low when compared with those in the suburbs surrounding the cities. That segment would comprise the most critial high speed trunk portion of a California High Speed Rail system. The same is true of much of the land between Pittsburgh and Chicago, between Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, and perhaps even from Chicago to Denver. High speed rail is in general hurt by high density outside of the anchor cities. What's the point of doing 200mph past a bunch of homes that could have provided paying passengers? |
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