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HSR between LA and SF will never be able to compete with air travel, especially with how many stupid stops they are planning on. A flight takes ~1hr, plus anot
by Hobadee 3y ago
HSR between LA and SF will never be able to compete with air travel, especially with how many stupid stops they are planning on.
A flight takes ~1hr, plus another hour for TSA and whatnot. Rail will take several hours at best. Unless rail significantly undercuts the cost of a flight (which can be had for extremely cheap these days) people just aren't going to use it.
- hedora 3y agoNot disagreeing that they’ll screw it up, but it’s only about 400 miles from the Bay Area to LA. That should be about 2 hours for a modern train. Assuming the train runs frequently enough for spur-of-the-moment trips (why wouldn’t it?!?) I’d definitely prefer that to screwing around with booking a flight, getting to the airport, and dealing with the TSA, even if the flight was only an hour.
- alephnerd 3y ago> plus another hour for TSA I'ce never faced a 1 hour TSA line for domestic flights at SFO, SJC, SMF, SAN, or SNA, and I travel a lot for work. Most of my security lines have been around 20 tops. And I'm a brown guy so I'm the demographic that should be hassled the most.