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Reading https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-JFK https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-JFK, https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-EWR https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-EWR and htt
by Someone 2y ago
Reading https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-JFK https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-JFK, https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-EWR https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-EWR and https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-BUF https://www.flightsfrom.com/LAX-BUF there are about 40 direct flights on that route every day. I guess that’s about 4,000-ish people.
That probably is not enough to make a train line profitable (they have larger capacity than airplanes, and you’d need fairly frequent service)
Luckily, as the crow flies, it is about 4,000 km from LA to NY, so a train route connecting population centers would probably be about 6,000. With a fast train (300+ km/hour top speed), the target of 30 hours will allow for some stops.
That will increase demand, with most passengers doing only part of the route.
- parineum 2y agoYou're going to have to scale that number down significantly to the people willing to take a 30 hour train ride instead of a 6 hour flight.
- ghaff 2y agoNot NYC to LA but BOS to SF route is something I used to do maybe half a dozen times a year. I might have done a 30 hour train trip once if such a thing existed though probably I’d want a sleeper for the experience. But otherwise I’d fly.