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Good luck with that, our safety standards for train cars in the US are head and shoulders above Europe, and in a whole different universe than India & China. Ad
by trome 10y ago
Good luck with that, our safety standards for train cars in the US are head and shoulders above Europe, and in a whole different universe than India & China. Add to that that it is illegal to buy up all the land around rail lines and lease it out to subsidize the rail company, and its no wonder we have to spend more!
This is before we even talk about fault lines, soil conditions, land cost, lawsuits, etc. that are involved in building High Speed Rail. You need a dead straight alignment for HSR, and as it stands there are businesses and homes in the way right now, which means a large legal mess to even start to clear up, before we even get into preliminary system design.
- tazjin 10y ago> our safety standards for train cars in the US are head and shoulders above Europe It's strange to regulate something you don't have. Maybe Europe has learned from actual experience with trains what standards are needed? Lets see what President Trump does with these sorts of things in his $1tn infrastructure package.
- trome 10y agoWe do have rail currently, passenger rail is a thing all over the US, whether it be commuter rail, light rail, or Amtrak. Its a common misconception, I had to explain to a MS exec the other day that passenger rail service from Seattle to Portland already exists, and her plans she was going to go push had been implemented a decade ago already. Re: Trump's infrastructure plan, I highly doubt we'll see any rail improvements, whether it be light rail or heavy gauge rail in West Virgina to unbottleneck their coal exports. He is very happy to walk back on promises he made on the campaign trail it seems, which is quite sad.