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re: Can high speed rail work in the United States?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 12:24 pm to bad93ex
Posted on 4/15/24 at 12:24 pm to bad93ex
No.
Too many stops needed between A and B locations.
Infrastructure too costly to build.
Flying is the way to go less infrastructure to build and faster transit times.
Just need to improve the TSA checkpoints. MSY can be a zoo in the morning even at 4 am.
Even light rail has its limitations with equipment and transportation needs.
The latest trend is to build transit systems with dedicated buses on managed or dedicated lanes for travel. Ironically Rob the Road Guy did a video on it on YouTube.
I saw in the Advocate that MSY is looking for a light rail project to connect the 2 airports and eventually connect to a rail station on the main railroads south of the airport. Instead of a train, why not build a busway instead, that way if a train is broken the whole system is not down, you just run a replacement bus on the line.
Too many stops needed between A and B locations.
Infrastructure too costly to build.
Flying is the way to go less infrastructure to build and faster transit times.
Just need to improve the TSA checkpoints. MSY can be a zoo in the morning even at 4 am.
Even light rail has its limitations with equipment and transportation needs.
The latest trend is to build transit systems with dedicated buses on managed or dedicated lanes for travel. Ironically Rob the Road Guy did a video on it on YouTube.
I saw in the Advocate that MSY is looking for a light rail project to connect the 2 airports and eventually connect to a rail station on the main railroads south of the airport. Instead of a train, why not build a busway instead, that way if a train is broken the whole system is not down, you just run a replacement bus on the line.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:26 am to Tarps99
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The latest trend is to build transit systems with dedicated buses on managed or dedicated lanes for travel. Ironically Rob the Road Guy did a video on it on YouTube.
I saw in the Advocate that MSY is looking for a light rail project to connect the 2 airports and eventually connect to a rail station on the main railroads south of the airport. Instead of a train, why not build a busway instead, that way if a train is broken the whole system is not down, you just run a replacement bus on the line.
I wonder how much it would cost to build a busway for express bus service to downtown New Orleans.
I could imagine a network of bus rail only lanes from the MSY terminal to downtown and continuing to the Westbank using the HOV lanes on the bridge to one of transfer stations under the Westbank expressway. The East Jefferson Route would need to follow the Earhart Expressway to the Orleans parish line and be an elevated bridge for the length of the Earhart or move over to Airline at this point to and follow I10.
The way the state could finance the new bus lanes would be to allow motorists to use the bus lanes as an express toll lane like other areas. The lanes could use congestion pricing to keep the lanes semi open to bus use.
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