High Speed Rail?,So Will Alexandria Cortez & Friends Help Build This Monstrosity?

[danielpalos]

It wouldn't hurt to have nationwide high speed rail.

If it wasn't run like Amtrack.

The government could **** up a wet dream, seriously.

one hundred mile per hour tracks should be Standard by now.

How much more expensive are 100 mph tracks as opposed to standard issue?

maybe two hundred fifty mile per hour tracks could be more cost effective. we are, "behind the curve" anyway.

 

[danielpalos]

a fully functional simulation could apply, "plug and play" technologies for production cost savings.

 

[Polishprince]

The main purpose for railroads in the United States is the transportation of freight. The costs affiliated with the competition of interstate tractor trailers is rising, the intermodal sector of railroading is doing well as it can serve customers without direct rail service to their businesses.

How will all this high speed rail affect the current improving sectors of the Railroad Rackets?

 

[Manonthestreet]

You can be sure they won't ride it, this is for the little people.

 

[bripat9643]

So do you Luddites have STOCK in buggy whip manufacturers?

Trains are 19th Century technology, not modern.

The problem with trains is their lack of flexibility. As the people move and new destinations become popular and old ones become less popular, massive new infrastructure has to be build with new stations and tracks laid. A growing nation like America would need to have millions of Coolies immigrating from China for the kind of track laying that would need to be laid.

Buses and planes are a lot more flexible. They can change routes. Cars are even more flexible.

You never been to Europe then lol....let me guess , you are a trump supporter ?

Stupid turds like you argued that we should switch to electric cars because the internal combustion engine was 100 year old technology. Now you're telling us that trains are the latest thing?

 

[LeeOnLido]

why cant we just start beaming ourselves like they did in Star Trek?

 

[Polishprince]

why cant we just start beaming ourselves like they did in Star Trek?

My old liberal Congressman always wanted to be beamed up.

 

[iceberg]

i hear california sold her a slightly used high speed railroad plan for a few billion.

 

[the other mike]

China is planning 40 years ahead, and they're already 40 years ahead of us. We're still wishing it was 1980
and we have no plans for the future except more war and interfering with rest of the world. Like Venezuela-- as we speak.

 

[Polishprince]

China is planning 40 years ahead, and they're already 40 years ahead of us. We're still wishing it was 1980
and we have no plans for the future except more war and interfering with rest of the world. Like Venezuela-- as we speak.
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America has its own solutions to future transportation- innovations like our Dreamliner.

 

[danielpalos]

The main purpose for railroads in the United States is the transportation of freight. The costs affiliated with the competition of interstate tractor trailers is rising, the intermodal sector of railroading is doing well as it can serve customers without direct rail service to their businesses.

How will all this high speed rail affect the current improving sectors of the Railroad Rackets?

New cities in more optimal locations could mean organic railroad access as well.

 

[the other mike]

America has its own solutions to future transportation- innovations like our Dreamliner.

Commercial airliners are a tax write off for Boeing. Most of their cash
is from war profiteering.

 

[leftwinger]

The main purpose for railroads in the United States is the transportation of freight. The costs affiliated with the competition of interstate tractor trailers is rising, the intermodal sector of railroading is doing well as it can serve customers without direct rail service to their businesses.

How will all this high speed rail affect the current improving sectors of the Railroad Rackets?

New cities in more optimal locations could mean organic railroad access as well.

OK. Start moving 25mil people, homes, jobs, roads out of SOCAL to the open plains where you plan a new metropolis. Not many would accept.

 

[danielpalos]

why cant we just start beaming ourselves like they did in Star Trek?

it all can start with a Corps of Mathematical Engineers and Quantum Computing.

 

[danielpalos]

China is planning 40 years ahead, and they're already 40 years ahead of us. We're still wishing it was 1980
and we have no plans for the future except more war and interfering with rest of the world. Like Venezuela-- as we speak.
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Tax Cut Economics are worthless if they don't cover railroad upgrades, too.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

It wouldn't hurt to have nationwide high speed rail.

If it wasn't run like Amtrack.

The government could **** up a wet dream, seriously.

one hundred mile per hour tracks should be Standard by now.

How much more expensive are 100 mph tracks as opposed to standard issue?

maybe two hundred fifty mile per hour tracks could be more cost effective. we are, "behind the curve" anyway.

There are stretches of track out here that the trains do hit 100 mph already. Been that way since the Big Boys were in operation. Those tracks are in the long, straight, lonely and flat western reaches where very few railroad crossing are present. And what few people that live there know that you had better be damned sure that there is no train coming before you cross those tracks. So you just don't hear about people being creamed all over the place in those areas.

But a 250 mile an hour track has to be long, straight and smooth. Any crossing will have to be done with an over or underpass just like the interstate. It's going to have to have well maintained security fencing as well. It won't be able to use the existing tracks, that's or sure. Freight Trains wreck tracks and shouldn't run on the same tracks as passenger trains like they do today. Everywhere there are High Speed Trains, they run on their own tracks. The tracks even allow for a leaning on the curves. If you put a freighter in that same curve, it would derail or, to put it plainly, it would just fall over. When figuring in putting a HS Rail then you have to start from scratch and build it much like the Interstate with the over and underpasses and safety fences, etc. Yes, it does cost more than a conventional train but it costs a lot less than to keep expanding our interstate system which is now a complete mess in some areas.

 

[LeeOnLido]

i think we should build a pedestrian walkway to Hawaii

 

[Daryl Hunt]

i think we should build a pedestrian walkway to Hawaii

Rent you a life vest cheap.

 

[danielpalos]

It wouldn't hurt to have nationwide high speed rail.

If it wasn't run like Amtrack.

The government could **** up a wet dream, seriously.

one hundred mile per hour tracks should be Standard by now.

How much more expensive are 100 mph tracks as opposed to standard issue?

maybe two hundred fifty mile per hour tracks could be more cost effective. we are, "behind the curve" anyway.

There are stretches of track out here that the trains do hit 100 mph already. Been that way since the Big Boys were in operation. Those tracks are in the long, straight, lonely and flat western reaches where very few railroad crossing are present. And what few people that live there know that you had better be damned sure that there is no train coming before you cross those tracks. So you just don't hear about people being creamed all over the place in those areas.

But a 250 mile an hour track has to be long, straight and smooth. Any crossing will have to be done with an over or underpass just like the interstate. It's going to have to have well maintained security fencing as well. It won't be able to use the existing tracks, that's or sure. Freight Trains wreck tracks and shouldn't run on the same tracks as passenger trains like they do today. Everywhere there are High Speed Trains, they run on their own tracks. The tracks even allow for a leaning on the curves. If you put a freighter in that same curve, it would derail or, to put it plainly, it would just fall over. When figuring in putting a HS Rail then you have to start from scratch and build it much like the Interstate with the over and underpasses and safety fences, etc. Yes, it does cost more than a conventional train but it costs a lot less than to keep expanding our interstate system which is now a complete mess in some areas.

a SimCity demo could show how HS rail may coexist with existing infrastructure or even upgrade existing infrastructure to accommodate better access to HS rail.

 

[danielpalos]

i think we should build a pedestrian walkway to Hawaii

we need to be moral enough to build a Commune of Heaven on Earth before we can attempt, any Stairway to Heaven.