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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Sep 28 21:19:11 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak unveils long-term plan for high-speed rail, posted by arnine on Tue Sep 28 15:43:00 2010. I don't understand the thirty year time frame. Thirty years AGO, SNCF in France did the Paris-Lyon opening segment of the TGV system in less than eight years. It was on time, within its budget, and SNCF made millions out of the new service right away. Those (then) orange trainsets made money right out of the box, and they are STILL competitive with the airlines in Europe for all trips of 500 miles or less.I'll say it again: why is it so difficult for us to have this here? , just 30 minutes off the (current) advertised, and HIGHLY competitive with flying from, say, LHR-PDG. It's a public (SNCF)/private (the Eurostar consortium) partnership, and now that they've got the kinks ironed out, it really WORKS. Such a system is well within our capabilities here, and it shouldn't take three decades to build and operate. |
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