Dutch High speed is finally came to a start, you can finally reliably commute from Rotterdam to Amsterdam reaching top speed of over 300km/h. a Trip takes only 23 minutes, before it was 54mintues - 1h 40minutes with the rather unreliable intercity commuter train. Which only reached speeds of maximum 140km/h
Channel am940kyno - today on the show 'Steve Wayte Part 2' high speed rail in the California was the topic of discussion: It's a good idea but the will end as a boondogle.
@ThePs3callofduty And the German ones. They even show the Velaro in Spain, but not the ICE. How dare they! Maybe they didn't find the routes exciting enough to include them in the program.
There are basic reasons why high speed rail has been adopted in many countries such as the high cost of running a car, expensive / inconvenient air travel and high population density. I'm not sure California could make a good business case for it yet.
pariently the High speed train are plastic and electric there made out of alluminum body like the honda civic, and there more dangerouse to crashes unlike American passenger trains they are Tanks on railroad there build out of steal, powered by diesel.
@cr4yv3n you also forgot to mention the fact that they take up FAR less land space than roads do. two tracks spaced room eachother, one going on one direction and the other going in the opposite is far Narrower along with it's barrier than a 4 laner freeway. AND at the same time can carry more passengers.
@abooboo4u about 140km/h, which is the low-local sprinter and stop train standards here. Although high speed travel is 300 - 480km/h (soon in france).
The description says that it describes high speed train projects around the world, but after 2 minutes and the Shinkansen inaguration, it's just propaganda for HSR in California. They don't even mention stuff like that the Taiwan HSR is pure Shinkansen technology, or the various types of rail construction methods needed for high-speed railways...
My mom once wrote a paper in college about how high speed rail was the way of the future. Go forward 45 years and an emerging oil crisis, the U.S. is just now looking into HSR.
@ClanLeaderINP The key word is loan... Population density in Texas is not high enough to support HSR, nor are Texans willing to give up their POV. Perhaps that will change with the increasing price of gas. As they indicate in this video, California is better suited to HSR, since they have three major population centers, essentially in a geographic line. Texas would require a Triangular Route, Houston to San Antonio to Dallas/Ft.Worth, at much higher cost.
As long as there is no TSA or other "security" to hinder travel, it could be great. I traveled on the ICE from Netherlands to Germany, and the best part was that you just get to the train station, walk onto the train, and the train leaves within a couple of minutes - no metal detectors, no searches or any of that nonsense. That is in my opinion the best feature of high speed rail.
Holy hell 357MPH !! But, just like high speed cars and sports cars, they'll need more frequent servicing. More maintenance too maybe; all that stress on the track, cables, bridges, tunnels and so on?
@FloOFy2 High Speed Trains are very safe, the safest actually. In the more than 45 years of HSR history around the world, only one fatal accident has occurred on a shared trackage (freight+passenger) high speed line. No fatal accidents have ever occurred on dedicated high speed tracks.
and in america trains go a amazing 75.3 miles per freaking hours ladies and gents. Can't beat that for the greatest country in the world, got the slowest trains in world.
@silentsteve63 -- Greatest country in the world. Funny how that's beaten into us as children. We'll eventually have high speed rail travel--but it costs a TON of dough to build it out in a country that's so wide open.
China is going right on ahead with its HSR. England's HSR protesters are nothing but a bunch of NIMBYs with the occasional tax protester mixed in, making a lot of noise, and Rick Scott, Scott Walker and Mr. Kasich are a bunch of airheads.
I'm an urban planning student and a huge supporter of these projects, but I do not believe Kasich was wrong. It was a 70mph train and people can drive 80mph. It needed to be a 200mph train to work. I hope in the near future that plan is made. Until then, Kasich gets the nod from me as he will reduce the debt and make Ohio more business-friendly. It an uncommon case where I vote short-term over long-term.
CHINA'S HIGH SPEED RAIL SYSTEM IS ALREADY WORLD'S NUMBER 1 WITH OPERATING SPEED UP TO 240MPH...AND DONT THINK THEY ARE UNSAFE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN ONE OF THOSE AT IT WAS SOOOOO COMFORTABLE AND ENJOYABLE
California is perfect for this type of system. i drove from OC to the bay for work, from the bay to sacramento to visit a friend and down 99 thru stockton, modesto merced, fresno, visalia and bakersfield back home. All places i went were along the route of the proposes train lines. hundreds of thousands of people live in those places. I think it'd do wonders for the economy of this state. along with a high tech agriculture economy. Not very now). that'd make this state sparkle again.
@1elgalle1 you don't know what you say. Italy operated the first high speed line in europe, the Direttissima, in mid-70s, in the 60s developed the Pendolino, the only active tilting thechonology in the world adopted for operational service. Pendolinos operated already at that time at 250 km/h on normal tracks. The tilting techonlogy was 100% MADE IN ITALY by fiat ferroviaria, developed under the direction of ing. Fancesco di Majo.
@1elgalle1 In the 2000 Fiat ferroviaria merged with the french Alstom which nowadays produces pendolinos with its name but with the italian technology of 50 years ago. Today Italy's Trenitalia operates a 1200 km line of high speed rails, on which run frecciarossa etr500 trainsets at operational speed of 300 km/h (with a project test speed of 350 km/h), wich is made in Italy too. In these days Ansaldo and Bombardier are projecting the new etr1000 capable of 400+ km/h.
@1elgalle1 In these days Ansaldo and Bombardier are projecting the new etr1000 capable of 400+ km/h. Ok, italy is not at Japan's level, but its technology revolutioned rail transportation on normal tracks, and nowadays has one of the highest operational speed in rail transportation (notice that shinkansens on nozomi lines has a limited speed of 280 km/h operated with the powerful JR500! where's the sense in that?) Inform yourself before writing superficial and silly comments, man :)
@luca90pr seems not good enough, because the documentary does not mention neither this nor any other document, till Obama did not mention the Italian train, mention the French Spanish and German and Japanese high speed train
@1elgalle1 Sorry, but I have to correct you again: LaHood visited Italy's minister of transportation Matteoli and traveled on a Frecciarossa from Naples to Rome with Trenitalia CEO Mauro Moretti on last july. On Italian brand-new HSR commented: “The United States has a lot to learn about High Speed trains, especially now that our system has entered the implementation stage. I am enthusiastic about this opportunity to learn from Italy and experience this great country's technology first-hand,”
@Audiomuse In USA right now the most important thing is not technology, comfort, or speed, but security. If you have these trains like you do already in France, Germany, Japan, and now China is just adding the list, in USA what is the TSA going to do? It's easy to place groping TSA security throwing away people's bottles of water to the garbage at airports, but how will they do that at train stations like at airports? Could you imagine life in USA w/o this? What is news going to be filled with?
US government should spend their money to improve their infra-structure rather than unrealistic "Mars immigrant" project and other military deployment!!!!
The TGV is so fast that, it can reach about half the cruising speed of a boeing 737 in midair. The ICE and shinkansen i adore a lot on their designs ,especially that 500 series and ICE-3.
Even countries like china, spain and taiwan r getting in
America needs something to get in the game :o
The high speed rail in California sounds like a good start,but with the kind of greedy people in power, i doubt if that can happen. :(
It's being retired from Tōkaidō Shinkansen as Nozomi. but it will keep working in Sanyō Shinkansen as Kodama with 8 cars V set instead of the 16 car W set.
I know that W1 set is still available and might work as Hikari to help Hikari Railstar on those busy holydays.
In my opinion, high speed rail is not practical in America. Only cities with high population density and excellent public transportation system can have the full advantage of high speed rail. For American cities, you will find it is a major problem to get to train stations even if there were high speed rail there. It means that American need to abandon their car first and move back to city center first before high speed rail become practical.
@zuo I think it is very practical. Imagine if America spent trillions on an interstate maglev system instead of trillions on 2 wars and a bank bailout. Every time an American flies domestic they "abandon" their cars. A high speed rail would get you from state to state fast (280 mph) without the hassles involved with flying. Imagine how fast cargo would get from Coast to Coast, especially if an evacuated tube system was incorporated. I guess we can just watch China do it and make excuses.
The Chinese CRH 380A is a little further developed copy of the Kawasaki E2-1000 with bogies of the Siemens Velaro.
BTW: Name calling and using strong words instead of mentioning facts is telling me only one thing about you and your reply: You don´t know anything about those trains and you are insecure.
@megatwingo So you're applying some of your generalisations of 'Chinese engineering' to the train without looking at the technicalities and design features. Innovation in China is on the rise, but it's not surprising you have never seen that yet.
After massive copying and learning from western technology.
Copying mainly.
This train is for 70% a copy.
And the Chinese parts at it are causing now massive problems because they were rushed quickly into service for public relations reasons without proper testing.
Again: One day China will develop proper planned and engineered stuff 100% themselves. But this time isn´t there yet.
We need this here in the states. Why build this instead of freeways and more runways for airports??? Well gas is getting more expensive and traffic is getting worse. Freeways aleviate conjestion on the long stretches, but they all dump those cars on the local streets of major cities. In a factory what's the best way to keep all your products moving? You don't hire more people to hand carry them... you install a conveyor belt!!!
@MrTheBeast Most likely. Just like when Southwest Airlines crapped their pants over the private company, "Texas TGV," and lobbied the snot out of the statehouse to kill them.
I think the German ICE and the Japanese Shinkansen high speed trains should be the perfect choice because, they're EMU (Electric Multiple Unit). EMU high speed trains are faster than power car powered trains. Japan already got plans to break the world record with one of it's newest Shinkansen trains. This new record will outrun the TGV and show proof that EMUs have better performance than power car high speed trains.
@Trainmaster189 Power Car type trains are necessarily not faster than EMUs, the reason to opt for EMU is due to better traction characteristics and more passenger space for a given length of train. The downside is larger maintenance facilities and less operational flexibility. Speed has little to do with it. The trend for all countries is towards EMUs but not because of speed.
@Trainmaster189 Also, the TGV that broke the record was an EMU - it had axles in the passenger cars powered to test the traction unit design for the AGV.
@Trainmaster189 Nearly all Hish Speed trains now are EMU - it means more seats as in theory you're putting seats in what would otherwise be a power car.
Don't bet on train travel being cheaper. In today's economy it's more likely that the passengers will have to pay more. Look at the High Speed line just built in England - domestic travel costs 1/3 more on it. I love the day trips, living in Kent. Ebbsfleet in England to downtown Lille in France in 1hr 9mins! With 15-30mins check-in/security!
High-speed rail would free up our highways and reduce urban pollution and smog. The US needs to be keeping up with these trends. Why aren't we doing this yet?!
Comfertable? Last time i was on Highspeed train, It wasn´t Comfertable and It Wasn´t cheap either.In Sweden trains are the most expensive way to travel. Bus is the cheapest and then comes aeroplanes.. So i wish they just skip the bullshit!!
Brazil need a TGV too... if it was not the corruption of our politicians we would have a TGV between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro for a long time ago...
for one i was suggesting private high speed rails not the government
in fact that video show the waste of government and i agreed with everything in the video but to say private rail systems cant work and not be profitable is ridiculous
@FREESOULIA how exactly would this produce little outcome? this would decrease traffic congestion, decrease o-zone emitions, and get people to their destinations faster.
The old antiquated "Henry Ford" era is gone. EVERY city in USA no matter how many Freeways they may have are clogged up with traffic. We have the same in Australia. Metro trains are the answer to this as in Paris and London.
With air travel, short intercity flights are just not cost effective. Why is your skies covered in Cirrus clouds resulting from Contrails made by high altitude airplanes ?
@ERNIEMAC2: Well, our entire passenger rail network was taken over from the private companies by the government in 1971. The people want it, bad. HSR has 88% support in the USA. But the government continues to shun the idea and they do their best to prevent private high speed rail companies from entering the country.
It's very sad to see America is still talking/debating about a regular High Speed Rail system while Japan is testing its Maglev train that can go 581 km/h. Japan and other countries are way past the point of regular High Speed Rail system.
I'm from Germany and I use our HST system as often as I can. It's just the most enviroment-friendly way to go from A to B on a long way (let's say 200+ km) I'm sure Californians will enjoy the benefits of their HST system and I'm looking forward to the Inauguration in 2020!
@sideslide23 I agree. Amtrak is a massive problem and is highly inefficient. In japan, if a train is less than a minute late. You basically get a free ride. That's how precise their system is. Because the trains that operate in that area are almost never late and there hasn't been a single incident or casualty ever since it was opened.
does that Include None High speed train like their Communter rail in Japan?
and Yes I've ridden the Amtrak before in spring of 1997, when I went from Fresno to San Diego and it was an Hour late, and what sucks about Amtrak is that you have to take the Throughway Bus, and their Bus Stinks because they had the Old MCI motor coach,
@sideslide23 I was referring to the bullet trains. Not sure about the regular commuter rail. But most of that is automated just like bart. So they are mostly never late. Though I have seen quite a few instances when bart has been.
@EpiDemic117: Not to mention that Japan Central Railways makes such a high profit with their HSR system that they completely privatized and broke away from the government. No subsidies.
@sideslide23: Not really. I can go from Indianapolis to Chicago and back for just $32. It costs me about $150 to drive round trip and $300 to fly round trip. But Amtrak does need to go away and private HSR companies need to be operating America's rail network.
@gibb1991 I red the artical on Amtrak they said," Amtrak gearing up for high speed rail" so If amtrak should survive, they should replace all the slow movoing passenger train and establish their own right away so they can have grade separation, electrification and other amphastructire like they did with Acela accept the Acela needs little more work to top speed of 200 MPH
Well this video was talking about how successful HSR has been throughout the world, obviously. Even though it only mentions Cali, there will also be a HSR system in the northeast as well as the rest of the country. I might be wrong, but I think it was only mentioning Cali because the video is one of the videos from the California HSR authority.
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I just cannot believe that CaliforniaTARDS voted for light rail. Well then again, maybe I can. If you think the USPS and Amtrak are STINKING BLUE ELEPHANTS that lose money each year, you aint seen nothin yet. The cost for the line from San Fran to LA is supposed to cost....what, 40 billion? And it is not allowed to use any public money to build..HAHA! When it is running, the private company running it will get a GAURANTEED rider level per year (government subsidy), or at least that is the rumor.
@gibb1991 Uh, that is about the speed it will travel at (light rail speeds) .The cost to make the section they are talking about true high speed rail would be astronomical. Oh, that is right, it is going to be about 3 times the cost of what they are advertising. This will be a huge waste of money, will lose money from the start and just get worse.
@tickyul: Um, there's no significant suggestion that the cost of the CHSR Network will triple. That's an unproven scare tactic. It's odd that you claim it will loose money while High Speed System in Europe, China, Japan, and Taiwain are all earning positive revanue and many are earning profits. Japan Railways did so well that it privatized and broke away from the Japanese government in 1986. Even America's Acela Express earned a $41 per passenger profit in FY2009.
@gibb1991 You need to talk about the USA, mark my words this will be over budget by leaps and bounds. And when it gets up and running the private operator is going to require a certain gaurantee on passenger levels. Every trip is going to be subsidized by the government in one way or another. The huge costs should require a huge ticket price, but, no one will ride the thing then, so the government must make the tickets below what it should really cost
not if you let competition set in , deregulate the market and and end the subsidies of american railways
like lets says european , american and japanese in this environment i have listed compete openly like tv companies the prices would go down dramatically and not mention how much we would benefit
@RIEKSONE Well, that is nice in theory, but, it does not work that way in the USA. We have to prop up all of our businesses, postal, airlines, banks, transit, etc, etc, etc. This rail line is going to require so much debt, revenue from the riders will never cover bond payments, government will have to step in. If the rail line charged what it needed to.....A LOT, no one would ride the thing.
lets take the nuclear power plant "Vogtle" in burke , for example during Vogtle's construction, costs skyrocketed from an estimated $660 million to $8.87 billion.[2][3] This was typical of the time due to increased regulations after the Three Mile Island accident.(new york times as source)
amtrak is government owned and a coercive monopoly and the reason trains before amtrak went bankrupt was because it was guess what government regulations and zoning laws
postal service has been a government monopoly while fedex and ups perform and provide better services without "propping up" government prop up shitty ass businesses because they dont want jobless(they get hired quicker under free mark) but instead of letting it fail and go bankrupt to change their ways they are redirecting resources in something that is not profitable and could be put to use better and more efficiently elsewhere airlines have to deal with TSA with heavy regulations
While this all looks good, my feeling is all the grant money and tax dollars will be spend on studies and lawsuits. In the end, we'll have nothing again. Just look at the LA to Vegas high speed train concept. Decades in the making and look at China. Planned and then build.
@harrisonaard1 Capitalism could be the advantage. We've seen what the government does when it messes with services (the mess called Amtrak is a perfect example) while private companies like Japans rails systems, Southeast Rail, Eurostar (self-privatized in October), Virgin Rail, and other companies thrive. Private companies and investors which will operate and one day own the system may be what makes the CHSRS successful.
@halo2windows A horse will take one closer to the door and if one has a big enough house, to one's armchair. Should we all ride horses? This is a train film. If you like cars so much, don't watch or comment.
And in USA when????? We are 40 years behind.
AndyGC100 1 week ago
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AndyGC100 1 week ago
Transportation will create jobs for our world economy
bruinfootball7 1 week ago
Dutch High speed is finally came to a start, you can finally reliably commute from Rotterdam to Amsterdam reaching top speed of over 300km/h. a Trip takes only 23 minutes, before it was 54mintues - 1h 40minutes with the rather unreliable intercity commuter train. Which only reached speeds of maximum 140km/h
sonicfan7 3 weeks ago
Because in almost every country around the world, Metric system is the norm...hence Kms/h instead of Mph.
yongodharma 1 month ago
seriously, why can't they give us the speed in km/h!!!
alexzhangfilm 1 month ago
We need to fix our budget too...
hortulanus94 2 months ago in playlist More videos from NC3D
The stinking GOP Gov. Scott of Florida doesn't want high speed trains. The stinking GOP sucks. Thanks to Seamen we now have high speed trains in USA.
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Channel am940kyno - today on the show 'Steve Wayte Part 2' high speed rail in the California was the topic of discussion: It's a good idea but the will end as a boondogle.
ZombieCaretaker 2 months ago
you forgot the italian high speed trains!!!!
ThePs3callofduty 3 months ago
@ThePs3callofduty And the German ones. They even show the Velaro in Spain, but not the ICE. How dare they! Maybe they didn't find the routes exciting enough to include them in the program.
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There are basic reasons why high speed rail has been adopted in many countries such as the high cost of running a car, expensive / inconvenient air travel and high population density. I'm not sure California could make a good business case for it yet.
dustziggy 3 months ago
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dustziggy 3 months ago
This HSR project would never recover the cost.
Civsuccess2 3 months ago
@Civsuccess2 your ass would never recover the cost after i gave you buttsex
MrEiriku 3 months ago
imagine getting hit are getting into a fight with the ppl in the train going that fast?
SWPARTIES 4 months ago
In 2023 HSR will be in the pacific NW! hopefully republicans don't ruin this.
Ithyphallic52 4 months ago
@Ithyphallic52 Wow, the debt that this mess is going to incur........isn't Caliorniatard and surrounding areas broke enough???
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well... USA would have probably had high speed planes, but then 9/11 happened. damn terrorists.
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anubis9109 4 months ago
pariently the High speed train are plastic and electric there made out of alluminum body like the honda civic, and there more dangerouse to crashes unlike American passenger trains they are Tanks on railroad there build out of steal, powered by diesel.
sideslide23 5 months ago
trains > everything else ( they are fucking ELECTRICAL so no pollution, mass transit, comfortable )
cr4yv3n 7 months ago
@cr4yv3n AGREED!
tehatemachine 5 months ago
@cr4yv3n you also forgot to mention the fact that they take up FAR less land space than roads do. two tracks spaced room eachother, one going on one direction and the other going in the opposite is far Narrower along with it's barrier than a 4 laner freeway. AND at the same time can carry more passengers.
tehatemachine 5 months ago
USA...Higfh Speed trains avaerage = 68.8 mph.....so there
abooboo4u 7 months ago
@abooboo4u In Serbia -> about 20 mph...
TheMocnivocni 7 months ago
@abooboo4u about 140km/h, which is the low-local sprinter and stop train standards here. Although high speed travel is 300 - 480km/h (soon in france).
sonicfan7 3 weeks ago
this i think has made me predict that i think soon countries like the USA, Great Brittan and Australia will eventualy follow in this.
FLAME4564 8 months ago
bg24955 8 months ago
Oz's Melbourne to Sydney service: 4, 60.
Boy do we need HST's.
stegatops1 7 months ago
Let the private sector do this and get your damn hands off of my money.
GodsItalianStallion 8 months ago
the United States already has this. Its called Amtrak
KripDrip 8 months ago
@KripDrip not even close to these
hunkgod 8 months ago
The U.S. east coast definitely needs this. Boston - New York City - Washington D.C. - Atlanta - Orlando
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The description says that it describes high speed train projects around the world, but after 2 minutes and the Shinkansen inaguration, it's just propaganda for HSR in California. They don't even mention stuff like that the Taiwan HSR is pure Shinkansen technology, or the various types of rail construction methods needed for high-speed railways...
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My mom once wrote a paper in college about how high speed rail was the way of the future. Go forward 45 years and an emerging oil crisis, the U.S. is just now looking into HSR.
TheGhostofNappa 8 months ago
Cant believe Texas just declined a Federal loan to build a high speed rail...
ClanLeaderINP 8 months ago
@ClanLeaderINP The key word is loan... Population density in Texas is not high enough to support HSR, nor are Texans willing to give up their POV. Perhaps that will change with the increasing price of gas. As they indicate in this video, California is better suited to HSR, since they have three major population centers, essentially in a geographic line. Texas would require a Triangular Route, Houston to San Antonio to Dallas/Ft.Worth, at much higher cost.
BuickDoc 8 months ago
@ClanLeaderINP heh in my view i think thats probbly one thing Texas could benifit from.
I mean ive lived in Australia here since 1990 and ive always thought that Australia and Brittan could benifit from these types of train networks
FLAME4564 8 months ago
Where's the Acela? No American pride?
Kfowlkes09 8 months ago
As long as there is no TSA or other "security" to hinder travel, it could be great. I traveled on the ICE from Netherlands to Germany, and the best part was that you just get to the train station, walk onto the train, and the train leaves within a couple of minutes - no metal detectors, no searches or any of that nonsense. That is in my opinion the best feature of high speed rail.
kayakergod 8 months ago
the United States of America needs the AGV (Automotrice Grande VItesse= high-speed self-propelled carriage), for H.S.R. The successor of French TGV
MrThoreros 8 months ago
not canada... :(
moreborgo100 9 months ago
america please embrace this
killaafrikaner 9 months ago
Gov Rick Scott of Florida cancelled HSR. Thanks Dick, uh I mean Rick.
pele6922 9 months ago
this is already out-dated, maglev vacuum tubes are much better and faster.
BatusaiJack 9 months ago
Holy hell 357MPH !! But, just like high speed cars and sports cars, they'll need more frequent servicing. More maintenance too maybe; all that stress on the track, cables, bridges, tunnels and so on?
Very interesting video, thanks for posting
thecloudytownofhul 10 months ago
@thecloudytownofhul Yeah, I think going over 240mph is not very pratical. Imagine if this thing derails?
FloOFy2 8 months ago
@FloOFy2 imagine if your conventional train going 40 mph derails
chungsta2046 8 months ago
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Couldn't be any worse than a 747 falling out of the sky...
Kfowlkes09 8 months ago
@FloOFy2 High Speed Trains are very safe, the safest actually. In the more than 45 years of HSR history around the world, only one fatal accident has occurred on a shared trackage (freight+passenger) high speed line. No fatal accidents have ever occurred on dedicated high speed tracks.
gibb1991 7 months ago
Morocco will have true HSR before the US
ericmarseille2 10 months ago
and in america trains go a amazing 75.3 miles per freaking hours ladies and gents. Can't beat that for the greatest country in the world, got the slowest trains in world.
silentsteve63 10 months ago
@silentsteve63 -- Greatest country in the world. Funny how that's beaten into us as children. We'll eventually have high speed rail travel--but it costs a TON of dough to build it out in a country that's so wide open.
muchdrama 9 months ago
China is going right on ahead with its HSR. England's HSR protesters are nothing but a bunch of NIMBYs with the occasional tax protester mixed in, making a lot of noise, and Rick Scott, Scott Walker and Mr. Kasich are a bunch of airheads.
Rickyrab 10 months ago
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I'm an urban planning student and a huge supporter of these projects, but I do not believe Kasich was wrong. It was a 70mph train and people can drive 80mph. It needed to be a 200mph train to work. I hope in the near future that plan is made. Until then, Kasich gets the nod from me as he will reduce the debt and make Ohio more business-friendly. It an uncommon case where I vote short-term over long-term.
IrishInColumbus 10 months ago
@Rickyrab they are also Republicans..Go figure. Airhead is a generous term for them too.
pele6922 9 months ago
CHINA'S HIGH SPEED RAIL SYSTEM IS ALREADY WORLD'S NUMBER 1 WITH OPERATING SPEED UP TO 240MPH...AND DONT THINK THEY ARE UNSAFE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN ONE OF THOSE AT IT WAS SOOOOO COMFORTABLE AND ENJOYABLE
jzair 11 months ago
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How can we trust in the technology of a country, that obviously hasn´t even working caps locks on their keyboards.....
megatwingo 7 months ago
What a f'ing pipe dream for the USA! Damn, sometimes, we suck!
767373jae 11 months ago
@767373jae your mother is a pipe dream. HAHAHAHAHA SUCKER
MrEiriku 1 month ago
California is perfect for this type of system. i drove from OC to the bay for work, from the bay to sacramento to visit a friend and down 99 thru stockton, modesto merced, fresno, visalia and bakersfield back home. All places i went were along the route of the proposes train lines. hundreds of thousands of people live in those places. I think it'd do wonders for the economy of this state. along with a high tech agriculture economy. Not very now). that'd make this state sparkle again.
mediaxpuppet 1 year ago
We need this shit in the United States... God I hate my country.
AssRapingHorseCock 1 year ago
Why don't they talk about italian high speed trains?
luca90pr 1 year ago
@luca90pr ITALIAN high speed train no exist
1elgalle1 11 months ago
@1elgalle1 you don't know what you say. Italy operated the first high speed line in europe, the Direttissima, in mid-70s, in the 60s developed the Pendolino, the only active tilting thechonology in the world adopted for operational service. Pendolinos operated already at that time at 250 km/h on normal tracks. The tilting techonlogy was 100% MADE IN ITALY by fiat ferroviaria, developed under the direction of ing. Fancesco di Majo.
luca90pr 11 months ago
@1elgalle1 In the 2000 Fiat ferroviaria merged with the french Alstom which nowadays produces pendolinos with its name but with the italian technology of 50 years ago. Today Italy's Trenitalia operates a 1200 km line of high speed rails, on which run frecciarossa etr500 trainsets at operational speed of 300 km/h (with a project test speed of 350 km/h), wich is made in Italy too. In these days Ansaldo and Bombardier are projecting the new etr1000 capable of 400+ km/h.
luca90pr 11 months ago
@1elgalle1 your mom does not exist lol haha lol lol lol lol roflmao lol
MrEiriku 3 weeks ago
great country japan
1elgalle1 1 year ago
@1elgalle1 In these days Ansaldo and Bombardier are projecting the new etr1000 capable of 400+ km/h. Ok, italy is not at Japan's level, but its technology revolutioned rail transportation on normal tracks, and nowadays has one of the highest operational speed in rail transportation (notice that shinkansens on nozomi lines has a limited speed of 280 km/h operated with the powerful JR500! where's the sense in that?) Inform yourself before writing superficial and silly comments, man :)
luca90pr 11 months ago
@luca90pr seems not good enough, because the documentary does not mention neither this nor any other document, till Obama did not mention the Italian train, mention the French Spanish and German and Japanese high speed train
1elgalle1 11 months ago
@1elgalle1 Sorry, but I have to correct you again: LaHood visited Italy's minister of transportation Matteoli and traveled on a Frecciarossa from Naples to Rome with Trenitalia CEO Mauro Moretti on last july. On Italian brand-new HSR commented: “The United States has a lot to learn about High Speed trains, especially now that our system has entered the implementation stage. I am enthusiastic about this opportunity to learn from Italy and experience this great country's technology first-hand,”
luca90pr 11 months ago
@luca90pr OK
1elgalle1 11 months ago
P>K>P> :)
beczkulus 1 year ago
HSR for U.S.A.!
Audiomuse 1 year ago 43
@Audiomuse In USA right now the most important thing is not technology, comfort, or speed, but security. If you have these trains like you do already in France, Germany, Japan, and now China is just adding the list, in USA what is the TSA going to do? It's easy to place groping TSA security throwing away people's bottles of water to the garbage at airports, but how will they do that at train stations like at airports? Could you imagine life in USA w/o this? What is news going to be filled with?
V8Fiero2M8 9 months ago
@Audiomuse Mag Lev Trains are alot faster look them up hey go 315mph at a constant speed!
wolfy5000 9 months ago
@Audiomuse -- Don't get your hopes up.
muchdrama 9 months ago
@Audiomuse that's a terrible idea. Better idea: Maglev for USA
claton95 6 months ago
@claton95 Lol, I'd like to see what the budget ceiling would look like after that's been built..
Darknight91DRE 6 months ago
@claton95 even better idea. kiss justin bieber
MrEiriku 3 weeks ago
@Audiomuse Agreed. How in the world do we not already have HSR in America? A true shame.
IRONJOEPAWLOWSKI 5 months ago
What about the Calgary- Edmonton Corridor, & its possible HSR?
cprailes44ac 1 year ago
US government should spend their money to improve their infra-structure rather than unrealistic "Mars immigrant" project and other military deployment!!!!
LouAu 1 year ago
We need high speed rail in the U.S.! Get involved
Audiomuse 1 year ago
hh
The TGV is so fast that, it can reach about half the cruising speed of a boeing 737 in midair. The ICE and shinkansen i adore a lot on their designs ,especially that 500 series and ICE-3.
Even countries like china, spain and taiwan r getting in
America needs something to get in the game :o
The high speed rail in California sounds like a good start,but with the kind of greedy people in power, i doubt if that can happen. :(
IVEMER 1 year ago 2
Fantastic Video, I am impressed.
bornkool 1 year ago
I'd prefer the Shinkansen anytime, specially the 500 series Nozomi
AF401 1 year ago
@AF401 Too bad the 500 Series is being retired.
gibb1991 1 year ago
@gibb1991 Well, not totally retired..
It's being retired from Tōkaidō Shinkansen as Nozomi. but it will keep working in Sanyō Shinkansen as Kodama with 8 cars V set instead of the 16 car W set.
I know that W1 set is still available and might work as Hikari to help Hikari Railstar on those busy holydays.
AF401 1 year ago
at lease it won't be expensive as an airplane ticket bleh.
kingraver507 1 year ago
ICE 3 is most comfortable
I love this train
MBHerbig 1 year ago 2
Spansish AVE FTW
RenfeFTW 1 year ago
JAPAN,damn i want to live there...
070erwin 1 year ago 2
In my opinion, high speed rail is not practical in America. Only cities with high population density and excellent public transportation system can have the full advantage of high speed rail. For American cities, you will find it is a major problem to get to train stations even if there were high speed rail there. It means that American need to abandon their car first and move back to city center first before high speed rail become practical.
zuoyezhideng 1 year ago
@zuo I think it is very practical. Imagine if America spent trillions on an interstate maglev system instead of trillions on 2 wars and a bank bailout. Every time an American flies domestic they "abandon" their cars. A high speed rail would get you from state to state fast (280 mph) without the hassles involved with flying. Imagine how fast cargo would get from Coast to Coast, especially if an evacuated tube system was incorporated. I guess we can just watch China do it and make excuses.
jiveturkeyusa 1 year ago
If you want to buy the HSR system which has the most experience, buy Japanese.
If you want to buy latest and world's fastest (both test run and commercial run) but also with the lowest cost HSR, buy Chinese.
If you want to buy some european technologies, buy German.
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No limited, only beyond.
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No limited, only beyond.
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@megatwingo if HSR are purely german and japanese then why the hell chinese has all operational speed records, stupid ass.
freetravler123 1 year ago
@freetravler123
The Chinese CRH 380A is a little further developed copy of the Kawasaki E2-1000 with bogies of the Siemens Velaro.
BTW: Name calling and using strong words instead of mentioning facts is telling me only one thing about you and your reply: You don´t know anything about those trains and you are insecure.
megatwingo 1 year ago 15
@megatwingo It's you who barely knows a thing of the CRH 380A. Check all the preliminary designs of the CRH 380A then talk.
TheBrolit 4 months ago
@TheBrolit
You are offering no facts.
Not a convincing reply, TheBrolit.
megatwingo 4 months ago
@megatwingo I sens you all the designs of the CRH380A in PM, now tell me again that the CRH380A is a copy of the Kawasaki E2-1000.
TheBrolit 4 months ago
@TheBrolit
I´ve watched the designs.
Nothing has changed the fact, that this train is a copy of the Japanese train with German wheels.
They have added some Chinese engineering to that copy, that is causing now major difficulties.
The Chinese authorities have put this train out of service until those own developed parts are finally properly tested.
One day the Chinese will develop their own stuff completely themselves.
But this day hasn´t arrived yet.
One day. Maybe.
megatwingo 4 months ago
@megatwingo So you're applying some of your generalisations of 'Chinese engineering' to the train without looking at the technicalities and design features. Innovation in China is on the rise, but it's not surprising you have never seen that yet.
TheBrolit 4 months ago
@TheBrolit
Those are not generalisations.
Those are facts.
Innovation is on the rise in China. Yes.
After massive copying and learning from western technology.
Copying mainly.
This train is for 70% a copy.
And the Chinese parts at it are causing now massive problems because they were rushed quickly into service for public relations reasons without proper testing.
Again: One day China will develop proper planned and engineered stuff 100% themselves. But this time isn´t there yet.
megatwingo 4 months ago
We need this here in the states. Why build this instead of freeways and more runways for airports??? Well gas is getting more expensive and traffic is getting worse. Freeways aleviate conjestion on the long stretches, but they all dump those cars on the local streets of major cities. In a factory what's the best way to keep all your products moving? You don't hire more people to hand carry them... you install a conveyor belt!!!
MEATYOKERRable 1 year ago 2
:-)
U21310 1 year ago
let me guess the airplane companies and auto industry are going to fight this to the death
just the same way they killed light rail in us cities and now we are using billions to rebuild all that
MrTheBeast 1 year ago 3
@MrTheBeast Most likely. Just like when Southwest Airlines crapped their pants over the private company, "Texas TGV," and lobbied the snot out of the statehouse to kill them.
gibb1991 1 year ago 2
I think the German ICE and the Japanese Shinkansen high speed trains should be the perfect choice because, they're EMU (Electric Multiple Unit). EMU high speed trains are faster than power car powered trains. Japan already got plans to break the world record with one of it's newest Shinkansen trains. This new record will outrun the TGV and show proof that EMUs have better performance than power car high speed trains.
Trainmaster189 1 year ago
@Trainmaster189 Power Car type trains are necessarily not faster than EMUs, the reason to opt for EMU is due to better traction characteristics and more passenger space for a given length of train. The downside is larger maintenance facilities and less operational flexibility. Speed has little to do with it. The trend for all countries is towards EMUs but not because of speed.
elfabyanos 1 year ago
@Trainmaster189 Also, the TGV that broke the record was an EMU - it had axles in the passenger cars powered to test the traction unit design for the AGV.
elfabyanos 1 year ago
@Trainmaster189 Nearly all Hish Speed trains now are EMU - it means more seats as in theory you're putting seats in what would otherwise be a power car.
Don't bet on train travel being cheaper. In today's economy it's more likely that the passengers will have to pay more. Look at the High Speed line just built in England - domestic travel costs 1/3 more on it. I love the day trips, living in Kent. Ebbsfleet in England to downtown Lille in France in 1hr 9mins! With 15-30mins check-in/security!
TheWadge 1 year ago
High-speed rail would free up our highways and reduce urban pollution and smog. The US needs to be keeping up with these trends. Why aren't we doing this yet?!
SiemensIndustryUS 1 year ago 3
Comfertable? Last time i was on Highspeed train, It wasn´t Comfertable and It Wasn´t cheap either.In Sweden trains are the most expensive way to travel. Bus is the cheapest and then comes aeroplanes.. So i wish they just skip the bullshit!!
xirux01 1 year ago
@xirux01 I rode on Deutsche Bahn's trains last April and they were very inexpensive and very comfortable. I was very pleased with the service.
gibb1991 1 year ago
High speed trains will out rival planes for continental journeys. :D
rock3tcat 1 year ago
Brazil need a TGV too... if it was not the corruption of our politicians we would have a TGV between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro for a long time ago...
ignaciojork 1 year ago
Oh my god. Even Mexico is planning to build one!
th3gtr 1 year ago 3
@th3gtr
Lol even worse, even Morocco has started building one...
rock3tcat 1 year ago
@rock3tcat Iran, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates are building lines as well.
gibb1991 1 year ago
With the American love affair with their cars I don't see high speed trains realized easy there.
ShwangShwing 1 year ago
it is not cost effective ... why would you spend so much for little outcome
FREESOULIA 1 year ago
@FREESOULIA
not really a lot is transported by rail and by having high speed ones would reduce the cost of products that go through rail transport
and its not cost effective because of the economic environment in united states
and the fact the government subsidized current railways
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@RIEKSONE /watch?v=WwXA5wv0zwI
FREESOULIA 1 year ago
@RIEKSONE /watch?v=6xyUg4J7Sf8
FREESOULIA 1 year ago
@FREESOULIA
for one i was suggesting private high speed rails not the government
in fact that video show the waste of government and i agreed with everything in the video but to say private rail systems cant work and not be profitable is ridiculous
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@FREESOULIA how exactly would this produce little outcome? this would decrease traffic congestion, decrease o-zone emitions, and get people to their destinations faster.
Amtrak1194 1 year ago
@Amtrak1194 watch?v=WwXA5wv0zwI
FREESOULIA 1 year ago
@Amtrak1194 /watch?v=6xyUg4J7Sf8
FREESOULIA 1 year ago
I think the main reason for under-funding and under-development of public transportation in USA is due to, guess what "RACISM"
ie, don't want to sit next to those colored folks mentality.
public transportation in US was not behind any of European counterpart until WW2.
but soon after Civil Rights movement, and de-segregation, it started to decline
very rapidly.
people chose to drive car over riding buses, trams, streetcars, trains etc.
simhopp 1 year ago
Yanks need to wake up and get REAL !
The old antiquated "Henry Ford" era is gone. EVERY city in USA no matter how many Freeways they may have are clogged up with traffic. We have the same in Australia. Metro trains are the answer to this as in Paris and London.
With air travel, short intercity flights are just not cost effective. Why is your skies covered in Cirrus clouds resulting from Contrails made by high altitude airplanes ?
ERNIEMAC2 1 year ago 2
@ERNIEMAC2: Well, our entire passenger rail network was taken over from the private companies by the government in 1971. The people want it, bad. HSR has 88% support in the USA. But the government continues to shun the idea and they do their best to prevent private high speed rail companies from entering the country.
gibb1991 1 year ago
It's very sad to see America is still talking/debating about a regular High Speed Rail system while Japan is testing its Maglev train that can go 581 km/h. Japan and other countries are way past the point of regular High Speed Rail system.
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sideslide23 1 year ago
I wish that Chile got the JR500 Nozomi to be the first high speed train...
but that's will never happen
in this country trains will never exceed the 150km/h mark.
AF401 1 year ago
Choose for speed
Choose for comfort
Choose for the environment
Choose high speed trains
fyra165792 1 year ago 18
That's right, HST is save, fast and cheap...
I'm from Germany and I use our HST system as often as I can. It's just the most enviroment-friendly way to go from A to B on a long way (let's say 200+ km) I'm sure Californians will enjoy the benefits of their HST system and I'm looking forward to the Inauguration in 2020!
Greets from Germany
XtotheZity
XtotheZity 1 year ago 12
THATS BETTER FASTEST but before i came to amtrak, too slow damn ass 9am to 11:30pm i tired. i was hurt sore my back lol
iMeboTube 1 year ago
Amtrak is a waste of money because its the same price as flying so its cheaper to drive, or take greyhound bus.
sideslide23 1 year ago
@sideslide23 I agree. Amtrak is a massive problem and is highly inefficient. In japan, if a train is less than a minute late. You basically get a free ride. That's how precise their system is. Because the trains that operate in that area are almost never late and there hasn't been a single incident or casualty ever since it was opened.
EpiDemic117 1 year ago
does that Include None High speed train like their Communter rail in Japan?
and Yes I've ridden the Amtrak before in spring of 1997, when I went from Fresno to San Diego and it was an Hour late, and what sucks about Amtrak is that you have to take the Throughway Bus, and their Bus Stinks because they had the Old MCI motor coach,
sideslide23 1 year ago
@sideslide23 I was referring to the bullet trains. Not sure about the regular commuter rail. But most of that is automated just like bart. So they are mostly never late. Though I have seen quite a few instances when bart has been.
EpiDemic117 1 year ago
@EpiDemic117: Not to mention that Japan Central Railways makes such a high profit with their HSR system that they completely privatized and broke away from the government. No subsidies.
gibb1991 1 year ago
@gibb1991 indeed
EpiDemic117 1 year ago
@sideslide23: Not really. I can go from Indianapolis to Chicago and back for just $32. It costs me about $150 to drive round trip and $300 to fly round trip. But Amtrak does need to go away and private HSR companies need to be operating America's rail network.
gibb1991 1 year ago
@gibb1991 I red the artical on Amtrak they said," Amtrak gearing up for high speed rail" so If amtrak should survive, they should replace all the slow movoing passenger train and establish their own right away so they can have grade separation, electrification and other amphastructire like they did with Acela accept the Acela needs little more work to top speed of 200 MPH
sideslide23 1 year ago
what the hell, is this only for Cali what about the rest of the nation especially the northeast?
DrDizzle1990 2 years ago
Well this video was talking about how successful HSR has been throughout the world, obviously. Even though it only mentions Cali, there will also be a HSR system in the northeast as well as the rest of the country. I might be wrong, but I think it was only mentioning Cali because the video is one of the videos from the California HSR authority.
erickofspirit 2 years ago
Its a video produced by the CA HSR Authority
boyblue499 1 year ago
Boy I can't wait for when California gets this! It will make traveling around the state an interesting experience.
erickofspirit 2 years ago
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I just cannot believe that CaliforniaTARDS voted for light rail. Well then again, maybe I can. If you think the USPS and Amtrak are STINKING BLUE ELEPHANTS that lose money each year, you aint seen nothin yet. The cost for the line from San Fran to LA is supposed to cost....what, 40 billion? And it is not allowed to use any public money to build..HAHA! When it is running, the private company running it will get a GAURANTEED rider level per year (government subsidy), or at least that is the rumor.
tickyul 2 years ago
@tickyul: lol. You apparently don't know what you're talking about since you just called it "Light Rail." Ha!
gibb1991 1 year ago
@gibb1991 Uh, that is about the speed it will travel at (light rail speeds) .The cost to make the section they are talking about true high speed rail would be astronomical. Oh, that is right, it is going to be about 3 times the cost of what they are advertising. This will be a huge waste of money, will lose money from the start and just get worse.
tickyul 1 year ago
@tickyul: Um, there's no significant suggestion that the cost of the CHSR Network will triple. That's an unproven scare tactic. It's odd that you claim it will loose money while High Speed System in Europe, China, Japan, and Taiwain are all earning positive revanue and many are earning profits. Japan Railways did so well that it privatized and broke away from the Japanese government in 1986. Even America's Acela Express earned a $41 per passenger profit in FY2009.
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tickyul 1 year ago
@gibb1991 You need to talk about the USA, mark my words this will be over budget by leaps and bounds. And when it gets up and running the private operator is going to require a certain gaurantee on passenger levels. Every trip is going to be subsidized by the government in one way or another. The huge costs should require a huge ticket price, but, no one will ride the thing then, so the government must make the tickets below what it should really cost
tickyul 1 year ago
@tickyul
not if you let competition set in , deregulate the market and and end the subsidies of american railways
like lets says european , american and japanese in this environment i have listed compete openly like tv companies the prices would go down dramatically and not mention how much we would benefit
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@RIEKSONE Well, that is nice in theory, but, it does not work that way in the USA. We have to prop up all of our businesses, postal, airlines, banks, transit, etc, etc, etc. This rail line is going to require so much debt, revenue from the riders will never cover bond payments, government will have to step in. If the rail line charged what it needed to.....A LOT, no one would ride the thing.
tickyul 1 year ago
@tickyul nothing needs "propping" up
lets take the nuclear power plant "Vogtle" in burke , for example during Vogtle's construction, costs skyrocketed from an estimated $660 million to $8.87 billion.[2][3] This was typical of the time due to increased regulations after the Three Mile Island accident.(new york times as source)
amtrak is government owned and a coercive monopoly and the reason trains before amtrak went bankrupt was because it was guess what government regulations and zoning laws
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@tickyul
postal service has been a government monopoly while fedex and ups perform and provide better services without "propping up" government prop up shitty ass businesses because they dont want jobless(they get hired quicker under free mark) but instead of letting it fail and go bankrupt to change their ways they are redirecting resources in something that is not profitable and could be put to use better and more efficiently elsewhere airlines have to deal with TSA with heavy regulations
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@tickyul we can debate this further on my youtube page if you like because i cant put everything i want to say on the comments
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@tickyul blow me skank
MrEiriku 4 months ago
@MrEiriku Nice try, I would welcome your comments if you can put forth an effort.......to be half way intelligent...........LOL.
tickyul 4 months ago
While this all looks good, my feeling is all the grant money and tax dollars will be spend on studies and lawsuits. In the end, we'll have nothing again. Just look at the LA to Vegas high speed train concept. Decades in the making and look at China. Planned and then build.
65001939 2 years ago
Nice film. A pity that politics and capitalism gets in the way.
harrisonaard1 2 years ago 12
@harrisonaard1: Not capitalism. Just politicians who don't listen.
gibb1991 1 year ago
@harrisonaard1
capitalism gets in the way
wtf are you retarded government gets in the way you fuck
RIEKSONE 1 year ago
@harrisonaard1 Capitalism could be the advantage. We've seen what the government does when it messes with services (the mess called Amtrak is a perfect example) while private companies like Japans rails systems, Southeast Rail, Eurostar (self-privatized in October), Virgin Rail, and other companies thrive. Private companies and investors which will operate and one day own the system may be what makes the CHSRS successful.
gibb1991 1 year ago
While long distance travel by train is good, it is more convenient to drive cars because of their ability to reach a specific point
halo2windows 2 years ago
@halo2windows A horse will take one closer to the door and if one has a big enough house, to one's armchair. Should we all ride horses? This is a train film. If you like cars so much, don't watch or comment.
harrisonaard1 2 years ago