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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (359909)11/23/2007 9:39:25 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575981
 
Now true that is sunk cost, and shouldn't be important when considering future actions, but unless you actually build new lines (and probably even if you do) rail travel will still be very small compared to other forms of passenger transport.

That's not true.....rail passenger traffic makes up a huge volume of European travel. So much so, they believe that airline service between cities of Europe will be reduced significantly over the next 10-20 years.

As for maglev, the Germans and Japanese are starting to build lines.....the more lines they build, the more economical it will become......esp. if there are significant breakthroughs in superconductors and a reduction in train weight which is very possible now with the new composite materials developed by Boeing. Maglev is not so far off in the future as once believed.
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