Seems like you want something from them and they don't want anything from you. How are you going to get what you want? Being your usual nasty selves probably isn't going to work.
Yeah, the difference between random factors like squirrels and attackers is that random factors don't learn and adapt and scale up their attacks. Random factors stop randomly. Attackers don't stop unless you stop them.
But why would you expand OAK twice? HSR isn't going to Oakland twice - or even once. And how is it "for the record" when you just make up random large numbers?
Airports serve lots of people going lots of places, not just people going from LA to SF.
No one is talking about ridership on this train that's anywhere near 30% of the daily users of those airports.
For a small fraction of $68 Billion, it would be easy to solve wait times at airports for popular regional flights. And it is a 60 minute flight, so comfort is less of a concern than for a (more expensive) 3-4 hour train ride.
If pollution is the issue (for green religious types), you could use another small fraction of $68 Billion to subsidize the switch from gas to electric for millions of cars -- that would more than make up for some extra planes.
It's more expensive and much slower than air travel. Plane tickets for regional flights are cheap. Maybe your country has weird air travel pricing? And $68 Billion could be used to make air travel more convenient.
Also, the LA-SF train won't be completed until 2029. Trains might not be obsolete now, but they will be before they could ever be widespread in the US.
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Wyoming people decide whether their state's energy policy is sufficiently "valid".
This post adds nothing to the conversation, it's simply a leftist vomiting insults at the other side....your group is just so toxic right now...
It's not just right now. It's been many years -- at least since 2010.
How not?
by pissing off people concerned about global warming.
Why shouldn't they? When have "people concerned about global warming" shown them anything but hatred and contempt and enmity?
Non voters preferences literally don't count.
Very persuasive.
Seems like you want something from them and they don't want anything from you. How are you going to get what you want? Being your usual nasty selves probably isn't going to work.
Who is "we"? Keep saying what you think the people in power should do to the people out of power.
These are very persuasive sentiments. I wonder why the people of Wyoming don't listen to kind-hearted entreaties such as this?
Did they?
In other words:
People of Wyoming, we hate you and hold you in utter contempt. Now please adopt our preference for your state's energy policy over your own.
Are you planning a military invasion of Wyoming? If not, why should anyone in Wyoming care about your preferences?
Yeah, the difference between random factors like squirrels and attackers is that random factors don't learn and adapt and scale up their attacks. Random factors stop randomly. Attackers don't stop unless you stop them.
In general, HSR lines don't transport cargo because it doesn't make sense.
A lot more Californians live near an airport than one of the proposed HSR stops.
They'll find it a lot easier if they don't have to deal with all the people who do want to go between LA and SF.
Not really. Those people are a very small fraction of the total.
Trains are for freight in the US. Because freight doesn't care that it takes extra hours or days to reach a destination.
But why would you expand OAK twice? HSR isn't going to Oakland twice - or even once. And how is it "for the record" when you just make up random large numbers?
Airports serve lots of people going lots of places, not just people going from LA to SF.
No one is talking about ridership on this train that's anywhere near 30% of the daily users of those airports.
For a small fraction of $68 Billion, it would be easy to solve wait times at airports for popular regional flights. And it is a 60 minute flight, so comfort is less of a concern than for a (more expensive) 3-4 hour train ride.
If pollution is the issue (for green religious types), you could use another small fraction of $68 Billion to subsidize the switch from gas to electric for millions of cars -- that would more than make up for some extra planes.
It's more expensive and much slower than air travel. Plane tickets for regional flights are cheap. Maybe your country has weird air travel pricing? And $68 Billion could be used to make air travel more convenient.
Also, the LA-SF train won't be completed until 2029. Trains might not be obsolete now, but they will be before they could ever be widespread in the US.
We already have many "good" answers.
Right now there is no better solution, and nothing realistically likely to come into being this decade.
The LA-SF high speed rail train isn't scheduled to be completed until 2029.
But now we have better alternatives that will be ready sooner.
Why plant a tree to get wood to build a house in 20 years when you can buy steel to build it in 5?
We should skip catching up to the past and concentrate on the future. The future isn't trains.
Or I'm joking.