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To: Brumar89 who wrote (579217)	8/3/2010 5:54:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572300

Our rail freight system is the best in the world, a competitive advantage we have and need. Who told you its the best in the world? It may be better than some countries but I know just from looking at it and riding on its rails its not the best in the world by a long shot. 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. When did things become more important than people. You are so fukked up. 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. We can't do it like the European countries do. We will have to do it in regions........I envision wheels on a bike or partial wheels throughout the country.......with certain cities acting as hubs. Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, DC, NYC, LA, SFO and Seattle might be hi speed hubs that other cities funnel into. Certain cities like Buffalo might funnel into two hubs.......NYC and Chicago. Omaha.....Chicago and Denver. SLC.....Denver and Seattle. So one's route across country, using hi speed rail, might be NYC to Buffalo to Chicago to Denver to SLC to Seattle. 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. You would be surprised at how many people are attracted to low speed, clean, reasonable train service. In ten years, LA/SD went from 2 trains per day to 22 trains. And its a hardly dense corridor. A lot of people don't like to fly. And imagine if the trains were high speed.