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What does high speed rail run on?
Electricity
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What does high speed rail run on?
Electricity
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Japan, with the worlds leading system, illustrates the financial devastation that high-speed rail can produce. For 25 years, Japan borrowed to build a system serving the ideal rail corridor, nestled along a single coast with a population of more than 75 million people. Ridership was artificially increased by high gasoline prices and one of the highest highway tolls in the world. Yet this modest system, only twice as long as proposed California system, played a major role in driving up a gargantuan rail debt that was transferred to Japanese taxpayers. The rail debt added more than 10 percent to the national debt. This is akin to adding $1.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt.
Virtually everywhere high-speed rail has been constructed, financial liability has fallen to the taxpayers. In Taiwan and the United Kingdom, taxpayers assumed billions of dollars in private debts for much more modest high-speed-rail systems than Japans.
High-Speed Rail, Budget Buster - Wendell Cox - National Review Online
You have an interstate highway system linking all the major cities across the nation. You build the HSR on pylons in the median between opposing lanes. The land is already there, use it and follow the road routes. There would only be minimal right of way needs where the rail would split for the road coming into stations in the cities.
The other thing different about HSR over say airline travel is that you can't hijack a train to another country or turn it into a missle or knock it out of the sky. TSA anal probes would not be necessary and people could travel more quickly and easily. Unlike a plane, if you need additional passenger or luggage storage, you just insert another car.
The other thing different about HSR over say airline travel is that you can't hijack a train to another country or turn it into a missle or knock it out of the sky. TSA anal probes would not be necessary and people could travel more quickly and easily. Unlike a plane, if you need additional passenger or luggage storage, you just insert another car.
It's high time we began a long trudge to catch up with Europe, Japan and China.
It'll be years before we see high speed in operation. They've had it for years already.
You have an interstate highway system linking all the major cities across the nation. You build the HSR on pylons in the median between opposing lanes. The land is already there, use it and follow the road routes. There would only be minimal right of way needs where the rail would split for the road coming into stations in the cities.
The other thing different about HSR over say airline travel is that you can't hijack a train to another country or turn it into a missle or knock it out of the sky. TSA anal probes would not be necessary and people could travel more quickly and easily. Unlike a plane, if you need additional passenger or luggage storage, you just insert another car.
With a plane you only need to protect the entry points to the plane. How do you protect a thousand miles of track? Knocking off a train will kill more passengers than a plane
You have an interstate highway system linking all the major cities across the nation. You build the HSR on pylons in the median between opposing lanes. The land is already there, use it and follow the road routes. There would only be minimal right of way needs where the rail would split for the road coming into stations in the cities.
The other thing different about HSR over say airline travel is that you can't hijack a train to another country or turn it into a missle or knock it out of the sky. TSA anal probes would not be necessary and people could travel more quickly and easily. Unlike a plane, if you need additional passenger or luggage storage, you just insert another car.
With a plane you only need to protect the entry points to the plane. How do you protect a thousand miles of track? Knocking off a train will kill more passengers than a plane
Well, if you run them down the median of the interstate system, it becomes a little obvious when Mohammed and Hakim are trying to strap a bomb to a pylon. Terrorist use things that strike fear into peoples hearts. Many people fear flying and falling 30,000 feet out of the sky. How many people do you know who fear riding on a train? While they COULD kill more people on a train, the psychological impact just ins't the same and that is part of what they are looking for. We already have passenger trains and busses. How many terrorist attackes against them have you heard of? The only difference between a passenger train and HSR is speed.
I like the idea but unfortunately our Government cannot afford it. Spending more money we don't have will not help our Economy in the end. Now if this was a private venture,it would be good news all around. Maybe the President can hit is good buddies up over at Google & GE for the cash? He has a very cozy relationship with these Corporations so maybe he can convince them to pony up the $53 Billion. They certainly have the cash. This is just the wrong time to propose this kind of Government spending extravagance. He really should look to the Private Sector on this one.
Isn't the private sector already doing/developing that via electric cars that continue to get more popular?Can we afford not to come up with alternatives to oil intensive modes of transportation?
Isn't the private sector already doing/developing that via electric cars that continue to get more popular?Can we afford not to come up with alternatives to oil intensive modes of transportation?
As somebody said: the U.S. just has too many square miles for high speed trains to be our solution.
It's high time we began a long trudge to catch up with Europe, Japan and China.
It'll be years before we see high speed in operation. They've had it for years already.
Thanks to conservatives, the US is falling behind more forward thinking countries. Germany is advanced in solar energy. China is working hard to try to eclipse (no pun intended) all other countries in the development of solar power technology. All of Europe is developing an integrated wind power grid. Brazil already has an advanced system of ethanol powered cars and trucks which keeps it from being dependent on ME oil. Of course, none of these ideas would have gotten very far without the partnership of the respective gov'ts in all these countries.
Unfortunately, the modern day conservative mentality is to try to stand in the way of American success if Obama can take any credit for it at all. Some conservatives are like children in that sense. Given the choice between American success under a Democrat administration or American failure as our country loses ground to China, India and others in the new global competition, they choose failure in the hope that will allow them to regain power. Those are signs of shortsighted selfishness and emotional immaturity.
It's high time we began a long trudge to catch up with Europe, Japan and China.
It'll be years before we see high speed in operation. They've had it for years already.
Thanks to conservatives, the US is falling behind more forward thinking countries. Germany is advanced in solar energy. China is working hard to try to eclipse (no pun intended) all other countries in the development of solar power technology. All of Europe is developing an integrated wind power grid. Brazil already has an advanced system of ethanol powered cars and trucks which keeps it from being dependent on ME oil. Of course, none of these ideas would have gotten very far without the partnership of the respective gov'ts in all these countries.
Unfortunately, the modern day conservative mentality is to try to stand in the way of American success if Obama can take any credit for it at all. Some conservatives are like children in that sense. Given the choice between American success under a Democrat administration or American failure as our country loses ground to China, India and others in the new global competition, they choose failure in the hope that will allow them to regain power. Those are signs of shortsighted selfishness and emotional immaturity.
Conservatives have nothing against investing in R&D for alternative solutions....but they are against negative forcing...
Obama shut down the oil wells in the Gulf....offshore California is off limits....Alaska is off limits....nuclear power has been curtailed....we have the biggest coal and natural gas supplies in the world but regulations get in the way.....and on and on...tell me again it's the conservatives trying to keep us dependent on ME oil...
It is wrong in a free society to like force electric cars upon a free people from the top down....as BO is attempting to do...
It is wrong in a free society to cause electricity costs to skyrocket from the top down....as BO is attempting to do...
Let the markets work freely...it's the best way to solve the problems...
Thanks to conservatives, the US is falling behind more forward thinking countries. Germany is advanced in solar energy. China is working hard to try to eclipse (no pun intended) all other countries in the development of solar power technology. All of Europe is developing an integrated wind power grid. Brazil already has an advanced system of ethanol powered cars and trucks which keeps it from being dependent on ME oil. Of course, none of these ideas would have gotten very far without the partnership of the respective gov'ts in all these countries.
Unfortunately, the modern day conservative mentality is to try to stand in the way of American success if Obama can take any credit for it at all. Some conservatives are like children in that sense. Given the choice between American success under a Democrat administration or American failure as our country loses ground to China, India and others in the new global competition, they choose failure in the hope that will allow them to regain power. Those are signs of shortsighted selfishness and emotional immaturity.
Conservatives have nothing against investing in R&D for alternative solutions....but they are against negative forcing...
Obama shut down the oil wells in the Gulf....offshore California is off limits....Alaska is off limits....nuclear power has been curtailed....we have the biggest coal and natural gas supplies in the world but regulations get in the way.....and on and on...tell me again it's the conservatives trying to keep us dependent on ME oil...
It is wrong in a free society to like force electric cars upon a free people from the top down....as BO is attempting to do...
It is wrong in a free society to cause electricity costs to skyrocket from the top down....as BO is attempting to do...
Let the markets work freely...it's the best way to solve the problems...
Conservatives lost this "force on a free society" argument..a long time ago, when their presidents forced agendas down the throats of the American citizens.
high speed rails are a great idea
Having the government build and run them is a bad idea....just look to how they have handled amtrack for proof.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it
AMTRAK loses money because Congress forces them to keep unprofitable lines through their districts.
I still don't see how high speed rail other than the Boston- DC corridor can turn a profit.
The infrastructure needed between point A and point B would never be warranted when you can just fly from point A to point B
They do well in Europe. The problem is speed.