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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (579187)8/2/2010 8:48:20 PM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1572362
 
Our rail freight system is the best in the world, a competitive advantage we have and need. We shouldn't mess it up so a handful of affluent white yuppies can ride nearly empty rail cars instead of driving their useless electric cars long distances.

I have sat on a sidetrack on an Amtrak train waiting 30 minutes for a mile long freight train to come by so it can have the right of way.

It probably should have the right of way. That train was likely carrying millions of dollars of freight. It should be sidelined for a handful of folks who could drive, fly, or ride the dog if they wanted? The freight train may have just been a lot more important than your trip.

Most hi speed rail can't run on the same tracks that freight trains use.

I hope so. If they aren't they should be able to not affect one another but building entirely separate rail lines just for is gonna be expensive.

You know this is a big country. Seattle and Minneapolis is a long way away. London to Belguim, Hamburg to Hannover, etc isn't. The big population centers in western Europe are pretty close together compared to the US.

The only place I can see high speed rail might make sense in the US might be the Bos-Wash corrider where you have 25% of the US population in a pretty continuous urban area. I don't think it makes much sense to plan on building a passenger rail system for Seattle to southern CA to TX to Denver to the midwest to Atlanta.
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