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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (146274)	3/5/2011 2:13:45 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206193

A fast train from Miami to Boston would make a lot of sense though. Hard to see building HSR for 1500-mile trips through long stretches of lightly populated areas; even with very high speeds, the trip from Boston would be 10-12 hours with stops, when you can fly in just a couple of hours. The DC-Boston corridor, OTOH, is only 450 miles with zllions of people now clogging up 95 moving between the major cities. If I could get to NYC in two hours on a convenient train, I would certainly go much more often.

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (146274)	3/5/2011 4:35:23 PM
From: Bearcatbob	6 Recommendations Respond to of 206193

" California needs a bullet train and could probably make it work. They have the population density and the need for high speed transportation between San Diego and San Francisco. " CC, a bullet train requires dedicated tracks. The cost of dedicated tracks is beyond huge. I have done the bullet train from Tokyo south to past Osaka. Here are the approximate populations we are comparing against. Tokyo to Osaka: 341 miles Tokyo: 8,700,000 Yokohama: 1,600.000 Osaka: 2.650,000 Kobe: 1,500,000 California: San Francisco to San Diego 460 miles San Francisco" 800.000 San Jose: 1,250,000 Los Angeles: 3,800,000 San Diego: 1,300,000 Perhaps the real question is how many people travel from San Diego to San Francisco. My belief is that what is being done now would be better for California if they had people dig a million holes and then pay them them to fill them in. That way they would not be saddled with subsidy costs to keep the trains running. That is the issue in Ohio. Who pays to keep it going after it is built?