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It's fun to look at, but the trip from LA to New York would be about 13 hours -- and that's ignoring the time stopped at stations and assuming you can go 220mph
by nostromo 14y ago
It's fun to look at, but the trip from LA to New York would be about 13 hours -- and that's ignoring the time stopped at stations and assuming you can go 220mph the entire trip.
New York to some other city would be even worse. For example, New York to Seattle and you're approaching something like 20 hours.
I really love trains for short trips (NY to DC), but I just don't see the actual demand these long distance lines. Maybe we should just try and fix airport security and intra-urban mass transit instead.
- ronaldj 14y agoI'd take a high speed if it was cheaper than flying and didn't require all the security.
- glenra 14y agoWe could solve the security problem with the stroke of a pen - just abolish the TSA. It is a horrendous waste of money, a ludicrously expensive tax on our time that we choose to pay out of pure paranoia. Is it really worth building an entire hugely slower alternate infrastructure to avoid this tax, when we could just opt to stop paying it? Contrariwise, if we are that committed to TSA, whatever brain-dead political calculation forced us to waste an extra hour in the airport before every flight would almost certainly cause us to do the same before every train trip.