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re: Can high speed rail work in the United States?

Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:17 pm to
Posted by Dawgfanman
Member since Jun 2015
24462 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:17 pm to
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This is a rail vs automobile argument. Of course air travel is the best.


The post from the OP sets up rail vs air.
Posted by poochie
Houma, la
Member since Apr 2007
6624 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:36 pm to
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Every other year or so, people get this idea that we can be exactly like Europe and use high speed rail to reach other cities rather than driving a car. What does the O-T think of high speed rail being implemented stateside?


I’m sorry you’re illiterate. Maybe you should be advocating for better adult education than high speed rail. It’s ok. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted by thecoconuttiger
Member since Mar 2024
185 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:39 pm to
Maybe in Delaware or one of those other postage stamp sized states but out in fly-over county uuummm no...
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
28804 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:52 pm to
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I’m sorry you’re illiterate. Maybe you should be advocating for better adult education than high speed rail. It’s ok. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.


In his defense the picture sets it up against air travel and other posters have made that comparison. I compared it to travel by car.
Posted by PUB
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2017
18970 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:53 pm to
We would all be dead after 500 Billion was spent to build 5 miles of rail.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
28804 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 3:59 pm to
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We would all be dead after 500 Billion was spent to build 5 miles of rail.



California is trying to find an extra $100B to complete theirs even after it had been whittled down to 171 miles of track.
Posted by rltiger
Metairie
Member since Oct 2004
1062 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:01 pm to
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Here’s an example. I’ve traveled from Houma to Hammond a bunch recently. That about 1.5-2 hours. A little shorter than Paris to London by train. But I’d much rather get in my vehicle and drive there when I’m ready, arrive when I want, stop where I want, etc.


I think you are off a little on you distance and time
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
21451 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:05 pm to
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The ones they will have in the ne cant even go that fast because of turns, tunnels and old bridges. So they will have high spd trains that cant average the high speed.


Rode the Acela from NY to Wilmington in the summer. It can do over 90 mph on some stretches of track, but that day it in slow mode because the tracks were hot and bending themselves.
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
100213 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:08 pm to
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No airport hassle" lulz Does this twat think the train is going to swing by his moms basement and pick him up?
Its not remotely similar

Train travel is 1/100th the hassle as going to an airport
Posted by Krane
Member since Oct 2017
1471 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:11 pm to
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Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
32425 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:16 pm to
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They’re going from Chicago to NY in 2.5 hours. You’re not stopping in podunk Ohio for a pit stop.


That 2.5 hr claim would assume the train is going an average of 285 mph the entire trip. Laughable. Then add on transit time to get to the train station from either end, time through security, boarding, etc, and this just shows how dumb the whole thing is.
Posted by PUB
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2017
18970 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:16 pm to
Pathetic. Government = incompetence and waste.
Posted by RibsandWhiskey
Metry
Member since Aug 2011
678 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:16 pm to
As long as Boeing heads the engineering.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 4:17 pm
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
32425 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:19 pm to
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Train travel is 1/100th the hassle as going to an airport


This is absurd. The vast majority of airports in this country are a breeze to get through. My record down here is getting in an uber and being at my gate waiting to board in 27 minutes, and I live 12 miles from the airport. It is physically impossible for me to board any form of transportation faster.

The Simpsons nailed another one with their monorail episode years ago.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 4:20 pm
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
100213 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:24 pm to
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This is absurd. The vast majority of airports in this country are a breeze to get through. My record down here is getting in an uber and being at my gate waiting to board in 27 minutes, and I live 12 miles from the airport. It is physically impossible for me to board any form of transportation faster.
This is so ludicrous I don’t know where to begin

Thinking your experience is normal or average is peak OT
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 4:25 pm
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
28804 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:27 pm to
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This is so ludicrous I don’t know where to begin

Thinking your experience is normal or average is peak OT


I live 30 minutes from the airport, if I have TSA pre-check I can be at my gate within 45 minutes of leaving my house
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
28613 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:40 pm to
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This is absurd. The vast majority of airports in this country are a breeze to get through. My record down here is getting in an uber and being at my gate waiting to board in 27 minutes, and I live 12 miles from the airport. It is physically impossible for me to board any form of transportation faster. The Simpsons nailed another one with their monorail episode years ago.
I don’t believe high speed rail will work in most of the US because of density issues, but this post betrays a fair amount of ignorance on the subject in a single point: that it’s normal for you that a major mode of transportation is 12 miles away from you. Pick any major European or NE US city with both an airport and a train station. Find both of their locations on Google maps. Once you do, one of the major advantages of rail travel will quickly become obvious.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 4:41 pm
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
28484 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:50 pm to
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Need more studies


Yes it might have an affect on some endangered rodent...

However, wind farms are killing thousands of birds a day and no one blinks an eye.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
28804 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:52 pm to
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Pick any major European or NE US city with both an airport and a train station.


Do you mean, pick a city that existed well before the advent of the automobile?
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
67631 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 5:05 pm to
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We recently watched a show about the Shinkansen (Japanese Bullet Train). The amount of work the Japanese do to make sure that the train runs on time and is safe to ride is incredible. I seriously doubt the current American low wage worker could or would pull it off.
Shinkansen macine broke.

Japanese (homogeneous) culture takes pride in the betterment of society.

Our modern US “culture” derives pleasure in not taking pride for or in anything.

So no, we generally cannot have nice things like high speed rail or even public bathrooms that require positive group effort and personal responsibility now here.
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