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re: Florida's new Brightline high-speed rail b/w Miami & Orlando is popular among riders
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:02 pm to Street Hawk
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:02 pm to Street Hawk
The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
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Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:05 pm to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
Country is too big for it to work
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:16 pm to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
Look at a map before you say shite like this.
This post was edited on 12/11/23 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:23 pm to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
If there were enough demand to make it profitable they’d be everywhere
Posted on 12/12/23 at 2:03 am to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
Connecting the Florida cities makes sense. Could probably do the same in Texas and California and maybe DC-Boston. Otherwise most places are too far apart and planes would be far better.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 8:13 am to bbeck
I've been aboard. It's nice.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 8:22 am to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
It's a big country - and only a handful of regions have clusters of cities that can support it in a way that air travel would be more costly/more time consuming.
Northeast+ Mid Atlantic
Chicago/Great Lakes
Texas
Gulf Coast/Florida
California
That's about it. And most of the above that isn't built are under construction or at least in the planning stages.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 8:39 am to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
It really isn’t. We don’t need them and they typically are drains on the taxpayers.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 8:59 am to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
We spend all our money on building strip malls.
Rails like this connecting major airports is a great idea. I wonder if this expands to other states and cities, how would the price compare to airlines.
Wonder what a trip from Miami to Charlotte (if there was an existing high speed rail) would cost compared to flying...
With this one leg costing $91, I could see it possibly costing more to travel by rail. Also, this leg takes almost 4 hours. Anyway to shorten that? Is the train hitting it's top speeds?
Non-stop between cities would be a must.
This post was edited on 12/12/23 at 9:03 am
Posted on 12/12/23 at 9:57 am to bbeck
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The fact the US doesn’t have high speed rail available nationwide is a disgrace.
Americans ain't ever going to use rail like people in other nations do because Americans are opposed to walking. Trains are great but they generally do not provide service to within 100 feet of the door to WalMart...but handicapped parking spaces do if you're lucky and going when they aint too busy....
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