Why new commuter rail lines in US are pipedreams.
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Why new commuter rail lines in US are pipedreams.
by SamCogar Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:04 am
The Obama administration's plans for a bullet train could be headed off the tracks in California,
Since the project was first unveiled in 2008, officials tripled its projected cost, delayed its start of service 13 years, downsized ridership projections and increased ticket prices.
-- Cost. Originally, voters were told the project would cost $33 billion, with state government, federal government and private enterprise sharing the cost roughly equally. New projections put the price tag at $98 billion, with no accurate assessment of how much each entity would pay.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/23/high-speed-rail-project-in-california-under-scrutiny/
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Re: Why new commuter rail lines in US are pipedreams.
by ohio county Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:09 am
Similarly, officials in China who fast-tracked high-speed rail are now re-thinking their support after several officials have been sentenced to prison for graft and a high-speed train crashed and killed thirty-five outside Wenzhou.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/23/china-train-collision.html
It was a case of too much, too soon and a willingness to alter engineering standards to meet political goals. Sound familiar?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/23/china-train-collision.html
It was a case of too much, too soon and a willingness to alter engineering standards to meet political goals. Sound familiar?
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Re: Why new commuter rail lines in US are pipedreams.
by SamCogar Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:33 am
Sound familiar?
Like Boston's "Big Dig", huh?
China could implement high speed rail service in many areas of the country because the majority of their citizens have no personal means of motorized transport nor do their populace live in far and widely spaced out housing developments, etc. …… and therefore their economy is not already dedicated and dependent on several million miles of paved roads and highways.
The American populace bought motorized vehicles and spread out …… and there is no way possible to force them to bunch back up and start riding a train.
I know that in the 70's Germany still had a Law forbidding the building of a house or home outside the City limits on property that didn't previously have a house or home built on it. I think it was to protect and preserve agricultural land to insure food production, even "wild" food. Harvested game animal meat can be sold in stores and restaurants.
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Re: Why new commuter rail lines in US are pipedreams.
by SamCogar Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:00 am
BEIJING — China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling 310-miles per hour (500 kilometers per hour), state media said on Monday, as the country moves ahead with its railway ambitions despite serious problems on its high-speed network. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45789448/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
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