Another example of high-speed fail

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Point being?

Don't copy the Communist Chinese because the costs and the risks aren't worth it. Do you need me to write in crayons for you?

 

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So you say.

BTW they said the same thing about many projects in the past. Guess how they felt afterwards?

You are anti progress. A Luddite.

Address the OP, please.

Address the topic, not other posters.

 

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It is projected to cost $80 billion, but some argue it will cost $100 billion. But it has not been built, and so has not cost that much, yet. As with any project that has not been built, it cannot be used.

 

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Airlines have had a lot of trouble with profitability, so bad example.

Air travel is why rail travel has basically become obsolete. Did you know that it costs more in many instances to travel by rail than by air?

You're a dolt claiming that air travel is not profitable. Air travel is not subsidized by the government. Without Government spending, rail travel would cease to exist.

 

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Some of China's rails are heavily used. Other parts are newer, and meant to drive growth in the areas. Its use declined with Covid-19, but then rose again.

Most of the European fast rail system is heavily used.

ALL of China's rail travel is heavily subsidized. ALL of European rail travel is Government subsidized. Without those subsidies, rail travel would be cost prohibitive.

Washington DC to Boston costs about $289 one way and takes slightly over 8 hours. You can fly for about $159 and it takes slightly more than an hour. Get it?

 

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People have been using Amtrak.

 

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People have been using Amtrak.

 

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Actually it's more complicated than that but with a mind like yours is just no point in going into the discussion The only thing you need to understand is that you're a moron

 

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Maybe the Federal Government will step in?

Why should they if people find air travel cheaper. faster and better?

 

[Celticguy]

Where?

airports are generally on the outskirts of towns.

 

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When you run out if room to install another lane on your high way you will use it

Why would you need high speed rail to go to work? Why would you need rail when you travel when airplanes are faster and cheaper? The topic is HIGH SPEED RAIL dimwitted wonder dunce.

 

[Celticguy]

Not in the US they aren't.

http://www.railjoint.com/news/why-no-ballast-on-high-speed-rail-track.html

US rail lines use ballast because they have to handle the much heavier loads of freight trains. High speed fail trains are very light by comparison and their speed will cause some ballast to be "splashed," that is, thrown in the air presenting a hazard.

Thus, why if the US were to pursue high speed fail, new right-of-way for lines would have to be purchased (grotesquely expensive), and new rail installed (very expensive).

AIRPORTS are everywhere

 

[Into the Night]

airports are generally on the outskirts of towns.

So?

 

[Nordberg]

If it was so lucrative, private industry would build it. But passenger rail travel isn't profitable in the US, airlines are. The technological Neanderthals are those who want to return to the 19th century and use choo-choo trains for passenger travel.

China and Japan have shown how valuable high-speed trains are. Get with not only the future, oh yeah, and with the present. So many Luddites on the right.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

China and Japan have shown how valuable high-speed trains are. Get with not only the future, oh yeah, and with the present. So many Luddites on the right.

In Japan they have a few lines in the most populous parts of the country where the population density is anywhere from 20 to 100 times what it is in the US anywhere. In China, they're losing their ass on high speed fail.

https://cei.org/blog/high-speed-rail-in-china-on-track-for-failure/

 

[Celticguy]

So?

you asked "where". only answer I could determine to provide.

 

[Jack]

Why should they if people find air travel cheaper. faster and better?

STFU! You live in Florida now. You have no say!

 

[Into the Night]

China and Japan have shown how valuable high-speed trains are. Get with not only the future, oh yeah, and with the present. So many Luddites on the right.

None of them have to travel very far. They spent a LOT of money installing them, too.

 

[Into the Night]

In Japan they have a few lines in the most populous parts of the country where the population density is anywhere from 20 to 100 times what it is in the US anywhere. In China, they're losing their ass on high speed fail.

https://cei.org/blog/high-speed-rail-in-china-on-track-for-failure/

The government of China, of course, says they are making money. A lie, since it's a government owned railway.

 

[Into the Night]

you asked "where". only answer I could determine to provide.

You have lost all context then. I am not talking about airports.