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Posted by WillD on Tue Sep 28 18:04:29 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak unveils long-term plan for high-speed rail, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Sep 28 15:59:07 2010. Obviously yes if you'd bothered to do any reading. The plan calls for a phased construction program which would see 200mph trains between Baltimore and Wilmington, and between Philadelphia and New York by 2030. Those trains would serve 30th St Station until such time as a 7.5 mile north-south HSL tunnel through Center City Philadelphia could be constructed with an accompanying station near Market East.Unfortunately I don't see anywhere within the document where it breaks out what the costs and travel time reductions of the various would be individually. I'd be interested to see where we'd be in 2030 with just the NY-PHL and Wilmington-Baltimore improvements. It's possible that despite ZOO and NY Penn's low speeds we may be able to get away with never doing the Philly and NYC dedicated tunnels and simply relying on higher speeds on the dedicated HSLs to make up the time. |
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