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It's also worth pointing out that even at TGV speeds, a coast-to-coast train ride would take ~20 hours. It would have to be sooo much cheaper than an equivalent
by legitster 1y ago
It's also worth pointing out that even at TGV speeds, a coast-to-coast train ride would take ~20 hours. It would have to be sooo much cheaper than an equivalent plane ticket to be worth it.
- ACCount37 1y agoIf we price the extra travel time at the level of US minimum wage, $7.25/hr, the extra ~15 hours of travel alone would add up to a price tag of $100. And if you don't have a bullet train, then the time-economy gets even worse. That sure seems like it explains a lot about the state of US passenger rail.
- saubeidl 1y agoYou could do a sleeper train one can work on. No loss of working time.
- ACCount37 1y agoWhich makes the train considerably less passenger-dense, and thus makes the train tickets more expensive. In return for reduced value hours: hours that aren't as productive as real office hours, or as entertaining as real vacation hours. I'm not sure if this would be enough to make coast to coast passenger trains more viable.