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Have you seen the number of flights daily between LAX and SFO, not to mention the other nearby airports. HSR planned to run trains every 5-12 minutes during pea

• rayiner 7y ago
  LA to SF is 3.5 million flights (edit: passengers) per year. It’s one of the busiest routes, but just 1/3 of what it would take to make HSR a net win in terms of CO2 footprint. The idea of an SF to LA HSR matching the Northeast Corridor’s passenger volume is completely laughable. You can ride the train all the way from the mountains north of NYC to exurban VA. Neither SF nor LA have the massive transit infrastructure connecting to the intercity rail that you have in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and DC.
  • kenneth 7y ago
    6 million passengers a year. 3.5M flights is about as many as the whole world has.