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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (125947)12/1/2009 3:55:22 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 543284
 
Like generals always fighting the last war, it seems highway and transportation planners are always expanding the last technology. High Speed Rail (HSR) may work between places like LA and San Diego where the 2 hour drive has become a gridlocked mess. I personally view HSR as a very limited transportation solution in California with almost no public support.

There is a plausible medium to long-haul breakthrough technology where people, cars or goods are sent to a grid destination 500 to 1500 miles away on a jumbo 300 MPH train. In this vision, people would drive a car onto a "land ferry" that would drop them off at a depot a couple hours distant, where they continue their travels conventionally. It would provide a more efficient and faster alternative to some truck traffic but that isn't what is being proposed by anyone.
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