Because we have evidence that in Europe and Japan and China and other emerging countries like Brasil,Morroco as high-speed trains are a huge commercial success.
It is likely that such high-speed rail system would have huge commercial success of our North American continent including the United States.
Why would tax payers need to pay to electrify freight lines, freight rail lines make huge profits and invest billions every year. Also, I really don't think electrifying Americas rail system is economical, it is a massive system and it is just one more thing to maintain for freight railroads, IMHO they do fine with the diesels they have.
china invest close to 700billion in there infrastructure and they are able move factories and cites are growing because of the sprawl effect..they still have problems but there economy is booming and that is not by accident..we need this in this country we need to do it all the potential in this country would be insane...
We can't afford not to build high-speed rail. The global economy is not comprised of countries but of about 40 mega-regions, including 20 in the United States. They are where most of the economic activity and tax revenue is being generated, and they are where high-speed rail can spur growth while giving us oil independence so that rising and unreliable petroleum prices don't ruin us.
@sierracuban I agree with you. That's disgusting. I really hate Rick Scott excessively like I really hate the former Florida's Republican Governor Jeb Bush about this subject.
We are in 2011 and I cannot believe it that there are still people who are narrow-minded that they don't want to know about high speed rail.
@sonicfan7 That's true. Nobody can force someone to have a such system if they don't want it. I'm sorry for my bad comments when I said they are narrow-minded. I really so sorry about that. Be assure that I shall not begin again anymore.
Instead of 1/8 of our military budget. Why not implement a national sales tax on security transfers and other economic derivatives. Thats an unregulated and untaxed revenue stream that some say is as big as a thousand trillion dollars. 1% of that sounds nice for capital investments like hsr.
@Paulwherrell ARE YOU KIDDING ????? HERE IN THE UNITED STATES we have been BRAINWASHED
by the BIG CAR mentality......To be PATRIOTIC you MUST think like GENERAL MOTORS.......Here in Florida our BRILLIANT Governor Scott has just killed our HIGH SPEED RAIL......BUT..........One day soon we will reverse that kind of STUPID thinking.....California IS full speed ahead on their fast rail, and WILL have it in the year 2020, just nine years away......CONGRATULATIONS CALIFORNIA.......
@buckeyechris1 Hey don't hate on republicans xD I'm a republican and want to legalize weed, and have high spead rail. Why would a republican be against that? come on.....
@DonHamburger The NYC subway system was built by a private company and operated for 40 years without a rate hike. Government pushed major businesses AFTER they were started because pandering politicians got in front of a parade. If you cannot accomplish goals or advance ideas without the threat of guns then or name calling then I believe the goals and ideas should be reevaluated. I don't object to high speed rails. I want them, which is why I want the govt to stay out of it. I live in Denver
If you all want a high speed rail then start a company and build one. Or invest in BNSF to build it. Don't use force and coercion to get what you want.
There is money to pay for it: raise taxes on the top 1% (whose average income is $3.5 million dollars/yr, minimum $1.4 mil), including an even higher marginal tax, and tax capital gains as income (marginal) like they do in the U.K. The US has a LOT of rich people and yet the middle class is in the gutter and our infrastructure is crumbling. We need to allocate our wealth to create things of value instead of shovelling it over to the Wall Street casino.
As usual, this administration is all talk. Approve the plan knowing that there is no money to pay for it. Nice idea, but we have other, more important priorities. Every administration pulls this scam, you'd think we would know by now it's all BS.
@Flap999 Actually, other HSR projects around the world are very successful and almost all electrified HSR systems make a profit and pay for themselves. Even Amtrak's Acela Express made a $41 per passenger profit this past year and completely sustains itself by carrying 64% of the air-rail travel share between Washington, D.C. and Boston, MA.
Im not quarreling with the profitability of Electrified HSR only problem is, except for California and maybe Orlando-Tampa none of the other HSR projects are going to be electrified i.e SouthEast Corridor HSR and Keystone Corridor West, those projects are going with the FRA definition of HSR as being higher than 90 mph
@longroll08 actually he didn't...Hitler got us out of the depression. Trust me look into it. I do want rail systems though and I think they are a good idea.
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People have been spouting this utopian nonsense for at last the past 60 years. It hasn't happened yet, and it never will. The U.S. is fundamentally different than Europe and Asia in too many ways. Leave the science fiction to Hollywood, and get on with your lives, folks.
Actually, the U.S. used to have the best rail system in the world. It works in the Northeast and 88% of Americans want it. If managed and constructed properly by private investors, which is the plan, it would be very successful.
All I hear is a lot of talk about High Speed Rail, with the exception of California, no project appears to be moving past the talking stage. Look at the proposed SEHSR corridor..it won't even be electric from DC to Charlotte..not TRUE HSR. I like the idea but nothing is getting done soon.
Lucky...US has Acela Express, and Canada doesn't even have any intercity electric rails. The only electric trains we have are subways and some people movers.
This is a great plan. Unfortunately, our town isn't on the grid. We do need an east-west connection for the northeast that doesn't go through NYC. I propose Buffalo - Albany - Springfield - Worcester - Boston.
I would also draw a High Speed Train Line from Omaha to Denver (to Spokane and other cities to Seattle) and from Oklahoma City To El Paso (And to Tucson - Phoenix....) For a nice east-west Connection
It's about 4750 km's (3000 Miles) from Los Angeles To Miami If you would put a highspeed train between those two cities, your trip would cost you about 10 hours. No hassling with airports and other stuff. 10 HOURS! (included waiting @ stations) Much More comfortable than airplanes...
Why don't we just keep on doing what we have been ? Instead of investing in "New" ways to renew America, why not just build ultra-mega-huge highways for 10 passenger SUVs to use a network of traffic clogged 26 lane highways at 120 mph ? Seriously, you would only buy a new engine every 20,000 miles and burn a gallon to a half mile ... ridiculous. Europe and Asia are so far ahead of the USA it is sickening. We don't even have a car that weighs less than 3 tons, let alone faster trains.
The 1 Hour PBS TV Program "NOVA", highlighted that VERY plan to bring Bullet Trains to California:
"Tracking The Supertrains
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.
I'm very sorry to have just read that Germany's plan to launch a magnetic levitation - or maglev - rail service has collapsed amid soaring costs.
It was to be built in Munich from the airport to the city centre, making it Europe's first commercial maglev train.
The Shanghai maglev is the only one in the world in operation. This is very very bad news, and reflects the idiotic "austerity" attitude that prevents any true progress. I urge you all to protest and oppose this with all vigor.
Airlines should love this. There is no more room at the major airports. This means places like JFK and LAX will not have to doulbe in size just to keep up, the Airlines can use larger planes and the smaller airports like Des Moines and Flagstaff can attract air service
iwasjusthinkn: You are right! The only person I know of who has been calling for the best solutions to the grave and pressing problems besetting the U.S. (and by extenstion, the world) is Lyndon LaRouche. No one in a position of influence seems to be even aware of the right, just, sane, decent and moral solutions! So I urge people to read and study LaRouche, his associates and the Youth Movement.
Italian ETR500s are now routinely operating at 300 km/h (186 mph) on the main arterial lines. FS have just inaugurated the new generation of 600 series ETR: ETR610. It is not known what the routine operational speed for this new train might be.
Conventional High-Speed Rail (CHSR): Nominal operational speeds for regular passenger services, as well as freight:
Between 186-250 mph.
For Maglev: 270-300 mph.
French TGVs and Japanese Shinkansens currently routinely operate at 186-220+mph, and as the readers must surely know, an Alstom-SNCF test train broke the world speed record last April 2007, clocking 578km/h.
The Shanghai Maglev routinely operates at 431 km/h.
Build a national High-Speed Rail and Maglev network connecting all major and secondary cities, industrial, agricultural and commercial centers, via a National Economic Recovery Act; a serious long-term commitment, and save the Republic and give it an assured and prosperous future. The alternative must not be consented to.
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It wont come to life becuase americans are bastard pieces of crap. They hate high speed rail and they like to suck saudi terrorist dicks. Amtrak Acela is NOT like the TGV and is quiete pathetic. The TGV, German ICE, or Japan Shinkansen Bullet trains are 100 times faster than that shitty Acela.
The U.S. is such a bastard country since they rather drive and think high speed rails like in Europe or Japan in unsafe. Americans are pussies.
Sad to say it, but you are right. About the whole Americans wanting to drive. But I wouldn't call americans pussies, after all there are alot of americans who want high speed rail. Just not enough.BTW your profile sais that you are in America. lol
Most Americans, other than me are pussies. Europe and Japan have brains and balls. All the U.S. can do is beat up on countries that have no al-queda like Iraq.
First all the large cities need proper mass tranit, than regional super high speed rails must be created and a train must go a minimum of 180mph.
as of now, the NEC is good enough. Our freight rails arent up to the task of handling trains past 100mph, let alone 180. All we need to do is revamp our age'in freight lines and talk the major Railroads into electrifie'in. that alone takes time....so shut up and wait! If you want a high speed train, move to Europe!
This is a very necessary ehortation to the citizens of this republic to insist on the restoration of our national infrastructure, before it's too late.
"Public-Private Partnerships" have not built any infrastructure; they have merely purchased infrastructure that the people of the United States and the several states had built—and looted it for its cash streams.
Modern infrastructure requires investments through the emission of Federal credit at 1-2%, no more, with a long-term maturity, though not as long as the economic life of the infrastructure it is building. (Quoted from The Economic Recovery Act of 2007 — LaRouche PAC)
This is occurring at the same time that the credit markets are in a crisis threatening general collapse, as a result of years of unbridled speculation in consumer and corporate debt bubbles. The United States requires, immediately, massive investments—on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars annually—in a new, high-technology national economic infrastructure.
America's vital economic infrastructure, once unparalleled after the work of President Franklin Roosevelt's administrations and war mobilization, has been neglected for decades and deprived of significant investment. U.S. infrastructure is undergoing a manifest breakdown, with loss of economic productivity and increasing danger to life and limb of citizens.
There exists no prospect for private capital investment in infrastructure on any significant scale. This private capital liquidity itself, increasingly, does not exist; it was based upon speculation in debt bubbles. And when it did exist, until recently, in apparently huge volumes for investment, the rates of return demanded by this global ocean of speculative capital did not allow its investment in economic infrastructure.
Er, Amiland IS science driven. school education may not be good, but we know US have the best Universities on the world. And I say that as German. The worst think I would critisize in the US is bad city planning and false traffic policy.
Restore the FDR policy outlook and America will thrive and prosper as the Constitutional Republic it is intended to be! Restore our Engineering, Science, Art, Agriculture! Restore the real, can-do, future-oriented, science-drive economy of America! The J.S. Bach is entirely beautiful and appropriate!
This is a great idea...no more screwing around with the airlines and fuel costs a fraction of a plane, which is most likely taking off with only 20 or so people.
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thundaboy654 2 days ago
END THE FED. THEN GET YOUR TRAINS!
4yall 1 week ago
Ok, but electrifying the freight grid will never happen.
Applachia0928 1 month ago
um... PORTLAND, OR??? don't forget about them.
DuckStateORX 2 months ago
we could improve our economy if we got rid of all these corrupt politicians and businessman!!
hortulanus94 2 months ago 2
Efficiency = Money = Porsperity = Happiness
admx94 3 months ago
Because we have evidence that in Europe and Japan and China and other emerging countries like Brasil,Morroco as high-speed trains are a huge commercial success.
It is likely that such high-speed rail system would have huge commercial success of our North American continent including the United States.
Sylvain603 3 months ago
Why would tax payers need to pay to electrify freight lines, freight rail lines make huge profits and invest billions every year. Also, I really don't think electrifying Americas rail system is economical, it is a massive system and it is just one more thing to maintain for freight railroads, IMHO they do fine with the diesels they have.
southparkline1 4 months ago
china invest close to 700billion in there infrastructure and they are able move factories and cites are growing because of the sprawl effect..they still have problems but there economy is booming and that is not by accident..we need this in this country we need to do it all the potential in this country would be insane...
melskilove 5 months ago
We can't afford not to build high-speed rail. The global economy is not comprised of countries but of about 40 mega-regions, including 20 in the United States. They are where most of the economic activity and tax revenue is being generated, and they are where high-speed rail can spur growth while giving us oil independence so that rising and unreliable petroleum prices don't ruin us.
CommunityBuildersSB 8 months ago
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paullubliner 3 months ago
The solution of green high speed rail is here now
smtrail.com
smtlive 10 months ago
High speed rail should have been started 35 years ago here in the US!
CJWJR 10 months ago
YES......BUT HERE IN FLORIDA THE PIG SCOTT KILLED our high speed rail.....
SCOTT YOU PIG......He wouldn't even look at PRIVATE FINANCING......PIG ! ! !
sierracuban 11 months ago
@sierracuban I agree with you. That's disgusting. I really hate Rick Scott excessively like I really hate the former Florida's Republican Governor Jeb Bush about this subject.
We are in 2011 and I cannot believe it that there are still people who are narrow-minded that they don't want to know about high speed rail.
Sylvain603 3 months ago
@Sylvain603 if you dont want it. DONT USE IT. not to you though. But to all American Narrow minded faggots who oppose Innovation.
sonicfan7 1 month ago
@sonicfan7 That's true. Nobody can force someone to have a such system if they don't want it. I'm sorry for my bad comments when I said they are narrow-minded. I really so sorry about that. Be assure that I shall not begin again anymore.
Sylvain603 1 month ago
@DonHamburger
Instead of 1/8 of our military budget. Why not implement a national sales tax on security transfers and other economic derivatives. Thats an unregulated and untaxed revenue stream that some say is as big as a thousand trillion dollars. 1% of that sounds nice for capital investments like hsr.
NickInjecton 1 year ago
I hope that you guys in the US do manage to build your high speed rail network then you'll realise what you've been missing out on all these years!
Paulwherrell 1 year ago 2
@Paulwherrell ARE YOU KIDDING ????? HERE IN THE UNITED STATES we have been BRAINWASHED
by the BIG CAR mentality......To be PATRIOTIC you MUST think like GENERAL MOTORS.......Here in Florida our BRILLIANT Governor Scott has just killed our HIGH SPEED RAIL......BUT..........One day soon we will reverse that kind of STUPID thinking.....California IS full speed ahead on their fast rail, and WILL have it in the year 2020, just nine years away......CONGRATULATIONS CALIFORNIA.......
sierracuban 11 months ago
@sierracuban
Good thing, cause we can't afford it.
jmjfanss 10 months ago
A project of this magnitude will never be possible as long as the Republicans exist. They are so anti-development it makes me puke.
buckeyechris1 1 year ago
@buckeyechris1 Hey don't hate on republicans xD I'm a republican and want to legalize weed, and have high spead rail. Why would a republican be against that? come on.....
tyseibert 10 months ago
@buckeyechris1 They aren't anti development, they are pro-sprawl
mugshotesp 8 months ago
@DonHamburger The NYC subway system was built by a private company and operated for 40 years without a rate hike. Government pushed major businesses AFTER they were started because pandering politicians got in front of a parade. If you cannot accomplish goals or advance ideas without the threat of guns then or name calling then I believe the goals and ideas should be reevaluated. I don't object to high speed rails. I want them, which is why I want the govt to stay out of it. I live in Denver
schiessl 1 year ago
In general I agree...but then what is the interstate highway system if not an example of "coercion" by the foregoing logic?
fdrlegacy 1 year ago
If you all want a high speed rail then start a company and build one. Or invest in BNSF to build it. Don't use force and coercion to get what you want.
schiessl 1 year ago
Interesting video. Thumbs up!
megatwingo 1 year ago
There is money to pay for it: raise taxes on the top 1% (whose average income is $3.5 million dollars/yr, minimum $1.4 mil), including an even higher marginal tax, and tax capital gains as income (marginal) like they do in the U.K. The US has a LOT of rich people and yet the middle class is in the gutter and our infrastructure is crumbling. We need to allocate our wealth to create things of value instead of shovelling it over to the Wall Street casino.
SweatLaserXP 1 year ago
As usual, this administration is all talk. Approve the plan knowing that there is no money to pay for it. Nice idea, but we have other, more important priorities. Every administration pulls this scam, you'd think we would know by now it's all BS.
Flap999 1 year ago
@Flap999 Actually, other HSR projects around the world are very successful and almost all electrified HSR systems make a profit and pay for themselves. Even Amtrak's Acela Express made a $41 per passenger profit this past year and completely sustains itself by carrying 64% of the air-rail travel share between Washington, D.C. and Boston, MA.
gibb1991 1 year ago
@gibb1991
Im not quarreling with the profitability of Electrified HSR only problem is, except for California and maybe Orlando-Tampa none of the other HSR projects are going to be electrified i.e SouthEast Corridor HSR and Keystone Corridor West, those projects are going with the FRA definition of HSR as being higher than 90 mph
scrat437 1 year ago
As i have been looking into trains to travel and the reason most of dont take trains is
A) dont know about traveling in trains cause of airplanes.
b)they take along time.
But build faster trains to get to our destination and remove hassle of flying. Then you have my vote.
Support high speed rail projects..
Then the airlines will do something to compete with my money = lower prices for flying.
America does needs this cause the only thing we spend money on is the military.
turbospartan 1 year ago
first mistake was in trusting fdr. next is trusting obama.
geekworks 1 year ago
@geekworks Why was trusting FDR a mistake? He got us out of the depression.
longroll08 1 year ago 2
@longroll08 actually he didn't...Hitler got us out of the depression. Trust me look into it. I do want rail systems though and I think they are a good idea.
tyseibert 10 months ago
@tyseibert technically it was Hirohito. After all Germany didn't attack us and galvanize public opinion so we would head march headlong into war.
babytweeze85 4 months ago
@babytweeze85 I stand corrected. Germany did help though simply because we had to produce more arms since we were fighting a war on two fronts xD
tyseibert 4 months ago
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paullubliner 3 months ago
NO!!!
BeantownJim 1 year ago
@BeantownJim bitch
MrEiriku 4 months ago
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People have been spouting this utopian nonsense for at last the past 60 years. It hasn't happened yet, and it never will. The U.S. is fundamentally different than Europe and Asia in too many ways. Leave the science fiction to Hollywood, and get on with your lives, folks.
phillippibeard 2 years ago
Whats utopian?
mobius1234 2 years ago
Actually, the U.S. used to have the best rail system in the world. It works in the Northeast and 88% of Americans want it. If managed and constructed properly by private investors, which is the plan, it would be very successful.
gibb1991 1 year ago
Very well done, 5 stars. North America needs more trains!
Intransitman 2 years ago 2
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Bad Idea. Europe and Japan are leading in the field of high speed trains and high speed rail-networks and that should stay that way.
EUROSUN1 2 years ago
Why should it stay that way? Why can't other nations reap the benefits from this mode of transportation?
gibb1991 1 year ago
All I hear is a lot of talk about High Speed Rail, with the exception of California, no project appears to be moving past the talking stage. Look at the proposed SEHSR corridor..it won't even be electric from DC to Charlotte..not TRUE HSR. I like the idea but nothing is getting done soon.
scrat437 2 years ago 3
Florida, and also texas are also getting it.
sideslide23 2 years ago 4
Funny how this was conceived two (2) years ago and now it's seriously being considered. The route is almost identical. Check it out.
ushsr ~dot ~com
formed about two weeks ago
DaaYay 2 years ago
they should include denver union station as a high speed rail stop
budw84 2 years ago
Lucky...US has Acela Express, and Canada doesn't even have any intercity electric rails. The only electric trains we have are subways and some people movers.
sega31098 2 years ago
This is a great plan. Unfortunately, our town isn't on the grid. We do need an east-west connection for the northeast that doesn't go through NYC. I propose Buffalo - Albany - Springfield - Worcester - Boston.
yarmo28 2 years ago
This is part of Obama's plan and I hope it starts soon.
BabyBang17datruth 2 years ago
I would also draw a High Speed Train Line from Omaha to Denver (to Spokane and other cities to Seattle) and from Oklahoma City To El Paso (And to Tucson - Phoenix....) For a nice east-west Connection
It's about 4750 km's (3000 Miles) from Los Angeles To Miami If you would put a highspeed train between those two cities, your trip would cost you about 10 hours. No hassling with airports and other stuff. 10 HOURS! (included waiting @ stations) Much More comfortable than airplanes...
Holland-grtz
Unmysterious 2 years ago
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sideslide23 2 years ago
Why don't we just keep on doing what we have been ? Instead of investing in "New" ways to renew America, why not just build ultra-mega-huge highways for 10 passenger SUVs to use a network of traffic clogged 26 lane highways at 120 mph ? Seriously, you would only buy a new engine every 20,000 miles and burn a gallon to a half mile ... ridiculous. Europe and Asia are so far ahead of the USA it is sickening. We don't even have a car that weighs less than 3 tons, let alone faster trains.
ChickenC0re 2 years ago
Very nice representation. I'm a fierce supporter of high speed rail projects in America,Canada and Mexico too.
Sylvain726 3 years ago 18
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The sooner the better...
California had the chance 25 years ago.
The 1 Hour PBS TV Program "NOVA", highlighted that VERY plan to bring Bullet Trains to California:
"Tracking The Supertrains
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.
Original broadcast date: 12/14/82
Topic: technology/engineering"
Modeltrainguy 3 years ago
this what I called this the American Dream, high speed rail network in most part of the U.S.
sideslide23 3 years ago
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sideslide23 3 years ago
The US is way behind the times.
simongbb7 3 years ago 2
Awesome! I can already see THOUSANDS of 'American Jobs' being created...IF the "American Railroads" signed up for the plan!
Modeltrainguy 3 years ago
The CA High Speed Rail authority estimates that something like 300,000 new jobs will be created as a result of this train
PremierSullivan 3 years ago 2
That's Awesome! ^_^
Modeltrainguy 3 years ago
With 700 billion bucks, we can build phase 1.
mugshotesp 3 years ago 3
AGREED! ^_^
Modeltrainguy 3 years ago
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AMERICA IS GAY!!!
privee111 3 years ago
so are you for making such a stupid comment.
6V92TA 3 years ago
@privee111 your gay
MrEiriku 1 year ago
Interesting proposition. Nice Bach. Maybe someday all of this will become a reality--if we find a way to pay for it. Good job on making this film.
JeffreyBeanJr 3 years ago 2
ambitious project and I think that American is able to do it :D
nawz2 3 years ago 2
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Correction:
cahighspeedrail (dot) ca (dot) gov
Here's Another One:
desertxpress (dot) com
DaaYay 3 years ago
I'm very sorry to have just read that Germany's plan to launch a magnetic levitation - or maglev - rail service has collapsed amid soaring costs.
It was to be built in Munich from the airport to the city centre, making it Europe's first commercial maglev train.
The Shanghai maglev is the only one in the world in operation. This is very very bad news, and reflects the idiotic "austerity" attitude that prevents any true progress. I urge you all to protest and oppose this with all vigor.
Sqaaak 3 years ago
Fuck maglev. It isn't compatible with existing infrastructure and thus will be more expensive.
In face NIMBYs have killed the extension to the Shanghai maglev.
If NIMBYs can kill maglevs in China, they can kill it in any democracy.
7boon 3 years ago
DaaYay 3 years ago 8
Check out the Cal High Speed Rail BLOG:
cahsr.blogspot. com/
DaaYay 3 years ago 2
Airlines ain't gonna like these kind of plans!
dojorap 4 years ago
They should, the rail system will bring more travelers to their doors. Airports will have some competition with each other.
DaaYay 4 years ago 2
Airlines should love this. There is no more room at the major airports. This means places like JFK and LAX will not have to doulbe in size just to keep up, the Airlines can use larger planes and the smaller airports like Des Moines and Flagstaff can attract air service
tombstonetom 3 years ago 3
iwasjusthinkn: You are right! The only person I know of who has been calling for the best solutions to the grave and pressing problems besetting the U.S. (and by extenstion, the world) is Lyndon LaRouche. No one in a position of influence seems to be even aware of the right, just, sane, decent and moral solutions! So I urge people to read and study LaRouche, his associates and the Youth Movement.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
Correction: the French world speed record last May 2007 was 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), not as I posted it, below..
Sqaaak 4 years ago
Italian ETR500s are now routinely operating at 300 km/h (186 mph) on the main arterial lines. FS have just inaugurated the new generation of 600 series ETR: ETR610. It is not known what the routine operational speed for this new train might be.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
Conventional High-Speed Rail (CHSR): Nominal operational speeds for regular passenger services, as well as freight:
Between 186-250 mph.
For Maglev: 270-300 mph.
French TGVs and Japanese Shinkansens currently routinely operate at 186-220+mph, and as the readers must surely know, an Alstom-SNCF test train broke the world speed record last April 2007, clocking 578km/h.
The Shanghai Maglev routinely operates at 431 km/h.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
High-speed lines in order:
1. Northeast Corridor
2. Southeast
3. West Coast
4. Midwest
295murase 4 years ago
Build a national High-Speed Rail and Maglev network connecting all major and secondary cities, industrial, agricultural and commercial centers, via a National Economic Recovery Act; a serious long-term commitment, and save the Republic and give it an assured and prosperous future. The alternative must not be consented to.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
This is a great idea but I doubt it will come to life with that oil junkie Bush in office. Great Video :]
thunderdragon14 4 years ago 2
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It wont come to life becuase americans are bastard pieces of crap. They hate high speed rail and they like to suck saudi terrorist dicks. Amtrak Acela is NOT like the TGV and is quiete pathetic. The TGV, German ICE, or Japan Shinkansen Bullet trains are 100 times faster than that shitty Acela.
The U.S. is such a bastard country since they rather drive and think high speed rails like in Europe or Japan in unsafe. Americans are pussies.
madmaxninja 4 years ago
Sad to say it, but you are right. About the whole Americans wanting to drive. But I wouldn't call americans pussies, after all there are alot of americans who want high speed rail. Just not enough.BTW your profile sais that you are in America. lol
thunderdragon14 4 years ago
Most Americans, other than me are pussies. Europe and Japan have brains and balls. All the U.S. can do is beat up on countries that have no al-queda like Iraq.
First all the large cities need proper mass tranit, than regional super high speed rails must be created and a train must go a minimum of 180mph.
madmaxninja 4 years ago
please... just stop talking.
charlebois02 3 years ago 3
as of now, the NEC is good enough. Our freight rails arent up to the task of handling trains past 100mph, let alone 180. All we need to do is revamp our age'in freight lines and talk the major Railroads into electrifie'in. that alone takes time....so shut up and wait! If you want a high speed train, move to Europe!
6V92TA 3 years ago
These trains go at 220
Younogod 3 years ago
uh...yes i know...
6V92TA 3 years ago
This is a very necessary ehortation to the citizens of this republic to insist on the restoration of our national infrastructure, before it's too late.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
"Public-Private Partnerships" have not built any infrastructure; they have merely purchased infrastructure that the people of the United States and the several states had built—and looted it for its cash streams.
Modern infrastructure requires investments through the emission of Federal credit at 1-2%, no more, with a long-term maturity, though not as long as the economic life of the infrastructure it is building. (Quoted from The Economic Recovery Act of 2007 — LaRouche PAC)
Sqaaak 4 years ago
This is occurring at the same time that the credit markets are in a crisis threatening general collapse, as a result of years of unbridled speculation in consumer and corporate debt bubbles. The United States requires, immediately, massive investments—on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars annually—in a new, high-technology national economic infrastructure.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
America's vital economic infrastructure, once unparalleled after the work of President Franklin Roosevelt's administrations and war mobilization, has been neglected for decades and deprived of significant investment. U.S. infrastructure is undergoing a manifest breakdown, with loss of economic productivity and increasing danger to life and limb of citizens.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
There exists no prospect for private capital investment in infrastructure on any significant scale. This private capital liquidity itself, increasingly, does not exist; it was based upon speculation in debt bubbles. And when it did exist, until recently, in apparently huge volumes for investment, the rates of return demanded by this global ocean of speculative capital did not allow its investment in economic infrastructure.
Sqaaak 4 years ago
Er, Amiland IS science driven. school education may not be good, but we know US have the best Universities on the world. And I say that as German. The worst think I would critisize in the US is bad city planning and false traffic policy.
Depotmaster 4 years ago
Restore the FDR policy outlook and America will thrive and prosper as the Constitutional Republic it is intended to be! Restore our Engineering, Science, Art, Agriculture! Restore the real, can-do, future-oriented, science-drive economy of America! The J.S. Bach is entirely beautiful and appropriate!
Sqaaak 4 years ago
Consult Japan!
tellerofthetruth44 4 years ago
The US neglected to invest in modern railway infrastructure. It will be to late when the oil price starts to rise exponentially.
Depotmaster 4 years ago
won't be too late.
IUhoosierW 4 years ago
2 bad we lack in transportation amtrack sucks they dont even have a good train system we need faster trains
brando42983 4 years ago
At EPCOT about 15 years ago, GM dislay had a model train, (Lionel size)that floated on electicity. You could push it with your hand. Very Very cool.
Autocad 5 years ago
This is a great idea...no more screwing around with the airlines and fuel costs a fraction of a plane, which is most likely taking off with only 20 or so people.
darthenstein 5 years ago
get with the times America!
britoca 5 years ago