Train stuffTo be fair, Amtrak is not high speed rail. From what I can find, the Texas Eagle, for example, averages about 42.5 mph between San Antonio and Fort Worth, with no stops. On the other hand, the bullet trains over in Japan have normal operation speeds well over 100 mph, and have demonstrated speeds up to 275 mph for conventional rail and 360 mph for maglev
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See, that's the thing... I doubt that there would be enough use in the US for bullet trains to leave every 10 minutes, because there just aren't that many people that regularly travel between Chicago and Detroit (example, of course). The way I see it: either we end up with frequent trains that no one uses because there's just not that much traffic traveling on the line (even if it were free, I suspect), or we end up with infrequent trains that no one uses because the schedules are horribly inconvenient. Naturally, I could be wrong. Maybe there are tens of thousands of Detroiters... Detroitans... people from around Detroit that are just waiting for a better way to get to Chicago. I just have serious doubts.
"So...is current airport security a joke or a necessity? If it's a joke, why do we have it? If it's a necessity, why is he joking about it, and why wouldn't it be on trains too?"
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"So...is current airport security a joke or a necessity? If it's a joke, why do we have it? If it's a necessity, why is he joking about it, and why wouldn't it be on trains too?"
This, I think, is a strong point.
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