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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (707763)4/9/2013 12:59:12 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577406
 
Sure you get economies of scale, but in terms of justifying the subsidies (to the extent they are justified at all which is dubious) something that you can get more out of can reasonably be considered to be worth more input. If you dump a lot of money for little benefit, it isn't cost effective. Economies of scale won't impact this much with HSR (or with ordinary slower speed long distance passenger rail), there will never be enough scale there, and in fact as the systems expand they move away from the most viable routes and become less cost effective, not more.

If you try to kill something as your people have done with Amtrak, you can't expect it to be at the same level as planes and buses. Your people don't like trains so they do everything they can to handicap them. Despite all the obstacles posed by your people, train ridership is growing.
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