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We need supersonic airports, not planes. Spending 2h to board a plane for a 1h flight is just wrong
by elbci 9mo ago
We need supersonic airports, not planes. Spending 2h to board a plane for a 1h flight is just wrong
- andrepd 9mo ago1h flights are just wrong period. Just build a train.
- Octoth0rpe 9mo agoDoes your opinion change if the flight speed is 2500km/hour for most of the flight?
- andrepd 9mo ago? No, because (1) the distance is still short and (2) 2500km/h flight is uneconomical so it's never going to happen anyway.
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoI used to take the train from Orlando down to Miami (well... Ft Lauderdale) and it was about 3 hours, vs a simple 1 hour flight, or a 3 hour drive. The train ride was worse on holidays though, sometimes it took 6 hours or even way longer. I think I'd much rather be on the plane overall.
- prof-dr-ir 9mo agogood train > plane > bad train
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoDriving is cheaper than all of those options when its more than one person, at least here in Florida. The more people involved in your travel, the cheaper driving starts to get.
- melling 9mo agoSome pretty bad traffic in Miami. Last month it took me an hour to go 10 miles on a Thursday afternoon.
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoHehe, my wife is from there, for the first few years she lived in Orlando I would crack jokes about how bad it is down there, noticed she was getting offended so I pulled back, but the last three times we've gone down there she swears up and down Miami drivers are the worst. Of course Orlando has I-4 as well, which is, its own special place.
- fragmede 9mo agoGet a comma ai and it's just not a bother.
- tazjin 9mo agoI regularly take the train between Moscow and Kazan. It's 12 hours, you can get on in the evening, have dinner on the train and then get a decent 8 hours of sleep before getting up, having some coffee and arriving. It's much longer than the equivalent flight, but also much more comfortable. There's something annoying about airports - with the train I can get to the station 15-20 minutes before departure and it's fine. Once the train rides get much longer than 12 hours it shifts, but there's a sweet spot right around there.
- melling 9mo agoCorrect, you weren’t riding a bullet train. There are these really fast trains that exist in a dozen countries. China has 30,000 miles of high-speed rail.
- andrepd 9mo agoWell duh x) because the "train" is dogshit, that's exactly my point. If instead of a 28 lane highway there was a dirt road, or instead of an intl airport and jets there was a grassy field and biplanes, nobody would drive or fly respectively, either x)
- Flavius 9mo agoSometimes it’s not that easy or cheap to build a railway. You have mountains, seas, wetlands etc. But I agree that high-speed trains should be the default option.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoEven if you don't, you have property owners whom you'll need to either convince to sell or you'll have to get eminent domain to cross their land. Across multiple jurisdictions depending on distance covered, any one of which could delay your project by months or years with procedural objections or hearings. You'll need environmental impact studies and accomodations for the entire route. And for high-speed rail you'll need to build underpasses/overpasses at every road crossing. And once you build a rail line you're pretty committed to that route. Air travel avoids all of that.