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The US got into air transportation with much more enthusiasm than Europe and this combined with our love affair with the automobile pretty much negated a need o
by Shivetya 12y ago
The US got into air transportation with much more enthusiasm than Europe and this combined with our love affair with the automobile pretty much negated a need or desire for trains. For the longest time traveling between countries in Europe could be met with restriction or such, the distances most traveled were not that great. In the US, it wasn't uncommon to travel hundreds if not a thousand miles on the big family vacation and you had three ways to get there.
High Speed rail might have some applications in some congested corridors, most likely only in the North East, but for the rest - air travel isn't that expensive.
- hackuser 12y ago> air travel isn't that expensive I would argue that air travel has become very expensive. I hardly can get a ticket, even for hour-long flights, for less than $400. Most Americans cannot afford that (take your two kids, and its $1600). Combine it with the increased price of gas, and many Americans cannot afford to travel outside their hometowns. We need better public transit.
- seanflyon 12y agoIt's easy to find flights from SF to LA (1 hour and 20 minuets each way) for $150 round trip. $400+ for an hour long flight seems like an outlier.
- ghaff 12y agoThere's always Greyhound. I honestly don't mean that facetiously. If air is too expensive and driving is too expensive, there are always buses-- though I doubt they'd be cheaper for a a family of 4 than driving,