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re: Can high speed rail work in the United States?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 6:32 pm to bad93ex
Posted on 4/15/24 at 6:32 pm to bad93ex
quote:I could be wrong, but I assume your township doesn’t have a major airport, either?
Probably wasn’t the clearest statement but the overwhelmingly majority of cities in the United States are built around the automobile. My current township was created in 1975.
My point was that train stations are nearly always near city centers while airports are nearly always outside of the city, sometimes significantly so. Fly into New York, Paris, Tokyo, see how long it takes you to get from the airport into the city. Hell, living in Baton Rouge, it would take me 20m to drive to the airport right now, which is comparatively nothing. But when people talk about the convenience of train travel, going from city center to city center instead of city to suburb to suburb to city is part of that discussion.
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Posted on 4/15/24 at 6:38 pm to Joshjrn
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I could be wrong, but I assume your township doesn’t have a major airport, either?
It’s a suburb of a major city but right off of a major interstate with a 30 minute drive to the airport.
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My point was that train stations are nearly always near city centers while airports are nearly always outside of the city, sometimes significantly so.
Ah ok, I see what you’re getting at. I am at least 45 minutes (on a no traffic day) to downtown. Wife and I are heading to NYC in February and I was looking into different ways to reach Times Square from LaGuardia, most likely will just take a cab/uber but it will be about a 30 minute ride according to Google Maps.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:55 pm to Joshjrn
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I could be wrong, but I assume your township doesn’t have a major airport, either?
I bet it has an airport, though, just like probably 95% of American cities. I don't know what percentage of American cities have train stations, but it's nowhere near that.
And air between cities does not require construction or maintenance.
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