The difference is most of China does not have anyone who could buy a train ticket. They have a few big industrial centers with a train going between them. I would compare that the train in the NE US.,
Most people go out of their way to avoid the "city center". We live in the suburbs and the companies are there now too.
That will only last until someone tries to blow up a train. After that you will be taking your shoes off to get on Amtrak.
Around hour on the train. Less time than travel to the airport. And in more comfort using less fuel.
The railway lasts for centuries. Airports are obsolete in a few years.
Er what about the Chinese?
Tch. They are buying the plant in, not suitable for nuke material.
Obviously they have. Or who would be on the trains?
Already been done.
# # The USA is ideal for passenger trains, especially across the mid # West. High speed passenger trains. You could have the fastest rains # in the world. # But nothing has been done. # People in the USA are stuck in the past. And the politicians.
LOL If there are NO PASSENGERS to use it, there is NO MONEY to pay for it. And unless you can get a train to go 600 mph, you're not competing with a transcontinental plane.
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Wow and for that we're supposed to spend trillions of dollars? So people get a little more room on a train versus a plane for a two hour journey?
I have no fixation on flying. I'm not the one proposing that we need more planes. YOU are the one claiming there is something drastically wrong with not having a huge high speed rail system in the USA linking up the midwest. YOU don't even live here. I do and I'm perfectly happy letting the marketplace decide it's own transportation options, not some commie sitting in the UK.
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Driving a car onto a train represents such a tiny part of the market it's not even worth talking about.
# # Astonishing. #You need to be using the train for passenger/goods transport not for # moving oil.
You demonstrate what a moron you are again
1) Oil qualifies as "goods" for mass transit purposes 2) There are not enough "passengers" to justify building a passenger infrastructure.
# # Have you any idea how big China is? #
Have you ANY idea of the population density of China versus the US ??
Why do you need to demonstrate you are a superficial ignoramus ?
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# # The advantage is that you can start/finish in the city centre, not # have to travel out to an airport. # Besides, aircraft/travel will disappear as fossil fuels become # expensive. # You get a lot more space on the train too. # # Why the fixation on flying?
Because it's cheaper and faster for the distances involved in the US, and does NOT require the building of rails for high-speed trains No up-front costs Lower operating costs Better return on Investment.
See how simple that is ?
You're just trying to shove a solution at the wrong problem
Yes, a train has some advantages. For those listed above, do you think that justifies spending trillions of dollars to link together the midwest cities, like harry says? And again, look at the highest speed train service we have, Amtrak's Acela from Boston to DC. Look at the ticket prices versus a plane. They overlap. Yet the train can't make money and the airline does. And that is without all the billions it would take to upgrade the whole rail system to make it faster. What would a ticket have to cost then to make it pay for itself? You would be like the Concorde, which, come to think of it, was a British idea. A great technological achievment and a complete commercial failure.
Wow, you really think so? A real world traveler we have here.
It hasn't been done here in the USA and he's right. Any new high speed train would be every bit a target as an airplane. As soon as it happens, you'd have TSA procedures for it. In fact, I would fully expect you'd have those procedures put into place as part of the plan to build it.
# Obviously they have. Or who would be on the trains?
#is this the same China where they have been building whole cities across that country that are no standing empty ? What the two segments about China.
# # The railway lasts for centuries. Airports are obsolete in a few years.
#BULLSHIT
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