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Should we be comparing it to trains or planes though?
by DenisM 8y ago
Should we be comparing it to trains or planes though?
- ebikelaw 8y agoDid you mean should we compare it to airports? LAX will land 54 aircraft in the 60 minutes starting now, and I assure you that amounts to rather more than 1000 pax/hour.
- Retric 8y agoLAX is 3,500 acres and only provides 1/2 the land area need for a flight. Worse you can't build anything tall near by and need all that land close to cities, making high speed trains a surprisingly good trade-off.
- calcifer 8y agoOf course, it's just a different form of public transportation. It needs to be competitive on a cost per passenger per hour basis in order to be viable.