SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK, STAR OF INDIA/BATTLESHIPS, TICKYUL

[th3gtr]

I just thought of something! Airlines and passenger rail companies can work together to create travel packages for tourists! It's brilliant. People flying to visit LA will be able to visit SF b/c the prohibitively long drive to SF will be eliminated by taking HSR! Have you seen a copy of the proposed schedule of trains? The shortest journey time from SF to La is 2hr38min on the express service. There will be a total of 12 express services on the SF to LA per day; 6 Nbound, 6 Sbound.

[th3gtr]

3 in the morning each direction and 3 in the afternoon each direction. The express service will stop only at SF Transbay, San Jose, LA Union, and Anaheim. The through-station dwell times are as follows: San Jose(2.0 min), and LA Union(2.0). Layover times are 40 minutes(That's going to keep the clean-up crews rushing!). Min. headway is going to be three minutes. The numbers will all differ depending on different pad allowances(such as 1% or 3.5%).

[tickyul]

@th3gtr Yeah, and the Porktrain will run masssive deficeits each time it makes a run.

[th3gtr]

@tickyul Have you looked at the finances of the Tokaido Shinkansen and the Paris-Lyon LGV? Both financially in the green. Payed themselves off. You know why? B/c they were built in the right places. Between two metropolitan areas and serving smaller urban areas in between. That's why you can't built in the middle of nowhere.

[tickyul]

@th3gtr Apples and oranges, Japan is not a fucking retarded country and they have the density to support their rail lines. And what is the price of gas in Japan....7 dollars a gallon??? Look at the NYC subway system, massive amount of passengers per day...and they are still losing money.....hahaha.

[th3gtr]

@tickyul Exactly, density. That's why the system is serving two metropolitan areas(SFBA and LAMA) and Central Valley cities, because people are in the proximity of the system and other feeder systems. Actually, it's probably around $8/gal in Japan. But, do they have to drive as far as Americans do? Probably not. The extra distance covered by American drivers probably closes the gap in the difference of the total amounts of money Americans pay for fuel and Japanese.

[tickyul]

@th3gtr Well, face facts, for the most part fail.........erm.....I mean fail......er....I mean RAIL is an old system that is not very succesful in providing transportation is a financially prudent manner.

[th3gtr0]

@tickyul Then how do explain all those large private railroad companies that ruled the United States like today's energy companies do back in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century? A fact is that JR Central has been turning in a profit from running the Tokaido Shinkansen line. A fact is that DB has been turning in profits from its entire network. SNCF has been running profits. Those are the facts. The age of a technology does not determine its usefulness.

[th3gtr]

San Diego is supposed to be reached in the second phase of the project. The first phase involves connecting SF to LA. The second phase is Gilroy to Sac and LA to San Diego. More potential corridors are those that connect to large cities in Arizona and LA to Las Vegas via Palmdale(a route that has been in the talks since the 1980s). Did you know Mexico is planning to build a nationwide HSR network? Possibility of transnational HSR like France-England-Belgium-Germany­. BTW, very nice waterfront.