ScottySkis
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/22/travel/ferrari-train-italo-ntv/index.html?hpt=tr_t2 super quick maybe one day it will be here
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this is one great way to get to the hills if we get this in USA
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ctenidae
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So many difficulties with high speed rail service in the US. None of them should be insurmountable, but it seems all of them are...
Geoff
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I'd be happy with true 150 mph track and European-style "intercity" express trains on the existing Northeastern routes. Right now, I can't do a day trip using the Acela Express to Philly. I have to fly. The 6:43am train out of Providence doesn't get to Philly until 11:07am. If I fly, I can take a 7:05 flight and be in Philly at 8:30. I never have problems making 10:00 meetings. Usually, I can be back home for dinner.
Right now, the train only serves as my emergency plan B if something bad happens at the airport and I can't get home.
2015 obviously ain't happening at this point, but hopefully someday this all happens...........
would be incredible
would be incredible
ScottySkis
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In California there getting high speed train service soon but they do not use mass transportation like we do in the east, I commute on a bus to Port Authority NYC from Middletown NY and it takes 1.5 plus subway ride, but the train takes over 2 hours just very annoying.
bigbog
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That's where the mindset is.....playcity to playcity...:angry: Scotty, ..well this is just my $.01, but imho the issue is....WHERE will the operations run, that's the main thing. High-speed rail would work given it would be positioned to be used by the 24x7 crowds from outsiders into the cities...ie the beyond-suburbs as well as we the skilled older crowd...think there are Enough of US????? (aparently corrupt CEOs don't like us....duh)....otherwise imho, like every other politician's gambit, it'll go broke...just like everything else designed for the politicians and wealthy. Friggin moronic politicians and their protege....arrrrggghhhh, what this country CAN do but chooses not to do.
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doesn't look like ski resort service though. Portland is the furthest north, or Montreal in Canada.
Not ski resort specific, but if local public trans is added it certainly might be an option. You could get from NYC or Boston to Burlington in 2.5 hours or less. That would be amazing.
From what I've read, the estimated total cost to make this happen is approximately a trillion dollars. That seems like a huge amount of money, but when you consider we spent north of $700 billion on our National Defense Budget last year, allocating a trillion over the next 20 years towards building this rail line seems like a no brainer to me. The biggest hang up will most certainly be the NIMBYs concerned with trains traveling 200 miles an hour through their towns. The Boston to Portland segment of the high speed rail runs straight through my town and the concept of a train traveling 200 mph through our town center certainly seems a tad scary with safety concerns, but I think people can adapt.
From what I've read, the estimated total cost to make this happen is approximately a trillion dollars. That seems like a huge amount of money, but when you consider we spent north of $700 billion on our National Defense Budget last year, allocating a trillion over the next 20 years towards building this rail line seems like a no brainer to me. The biggest hang up will most certainly be the NIMBYs concerned with trains traveling 200 miles an hour through their towns. The Boston to Portland segment of the high speed rail runs straight through my town and the concept of a train traveling 200 mph through our town center certainly seems a tad scary with safety concerns, but I think people can adapt.
drjeff
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My hunch is that the lawsuit batttles from the NIMBY crowd would end up adding a very signifcant sum to the total pricetag
And even though a TRILLION dollars as estimated seems like (and is) a HUGE sum of $$, when looking at that map and thinking of all those miles of rails and the all the associated infastructure that would be needed, that estimated trillion might very well be a very optimistic estimate
St. Bear
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I'm not sure how feasible it would be in the winter, particularly in the mountain states. Italy has an extremely mild winter, it's not so much an issue there, but I would be very concerned about speeding through a snowstorm or of the track icing up at 200+ mph.
more than being in a car?
St. Bear
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I wouldn't take a Ferrari out in the snow. Just like with cars, there are trains that can handle that kind of environment, but this train seems to be very much like the cars that it's parent company makes.
ScottySkis
Well-known member
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...-trains_n_1910638.html?icid=hp_travel_art_nxt They testing Amtrak up to speeds of 165mph. We need more fast trains in the north east.
