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High Speed Rail

Create a comprehensive network of high speed rail lines in low atmosphere tubes for commuting and commercial use. This technology is faster, cheaper and more efficient than air, truck or ship travel and building it would provide jobs. Apparently, in vacuum tubes, trains - mag-lev trains can go over 4000 mph! NY to LA in less than an hour? Talk about infrastructure improvements! By the way, if it were possible, I would support this network being built with no trains at all but small pods that you could hop into and request a destination. Even more efficient use of time!

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Submitted by csipe 4 years ago

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  1. stevensje

    Don't make the tax payer fund this project if it is to be sold to foreign interests like Canadian National Railway around Chicago to the South (future NAFTA railway to Mexico).

    4 years ago
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  2. chlabo2

    The cost to the passenger would have to be affordable or it will go the way of Amtrak. I have wanted to take Amtrak in the past but the tickets are usually twice what I ended up paying for an airline ticket. So cost effeciency would have to be imperative.

    4 years ago
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  3. mwdabose

    The big problem I have noticed with all the mass transit proposals to date is how do we bridge the first and last mile? The implementation needs to be clean, reliable, and cheap. Riding mass transit over distance is a no brainer. However, I still need a way to get from my home to the station. Once I arrive at the station, or nearest stop, I need a way to get to the office, or shopping, etc. Walking, riding a bike are not practical, as in most cases the nearest stop is miles away. As for the bus system . . . I would like to get to the office in a reasonable time, not a 3+ hours commute each way - transfers + waiting for the next bus + walk to the destination from the nearest drop.

    If we can solve the first and last mile problem, mass transit could be a big hit.

    4 years ago
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  4. kdtroxel

    Retool Detroit automakers to HHO (brown gas) engines that run 100% on water and negate all reason to have high speed rail.

    Brown gas or HHO gas engine hybrid.

    “Water Inventor Killed….Full Story.” Stan Meyer’s 100% water powered car.

    4 years ago
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  5. mchlsrrb

    For reasons that now seem hard to understand, cargo and passenger rail systems were separated many years ago. The result was that both were allowed to decay.

    In many countries the latest technology is used for the benefit of the nation.

    Not surprising, the heavy costs of tunnels means that our rail system has few. If you look in the site with the longest rail tunnels in the world you will find only one entry for the USA, it is the shortest and the oldest -last time I looked.

    The high speed rail in California is driven by a voter approved bond for $9 Billion, yet the one Office they had in Sacramento for about eight years is about to shut, for lack of funds.

    The final cost is expected to be $49 Billion.

    No wonder voters are skeptical.

    The Airlines are also skeptical. The plan to have 10 trains in each direction daily seems fictional and they are not worried. The massive subsidies may not have any voter support; our Governor said there would be no subsidies for the train even while supporting the Bond, that passed by margin of approval of One percent.

    One last point. Trains require tunnels to use their efficiency in propulsion.

    Rail tunnels are needed in the Cascades, St. Bernardino Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. This is obvious to those with access to Google Earth.

    Equally formidable is how to support tunnels for commercial use with tax funds. In general, rails used for freight do not carry passengers. We may be the only nation in the world.

    4 years ago
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