Comments on: Wishes and (Iron) Horses

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By: Vickie Shaffer

Vickie Shaffer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:15:19 +0000

What will the long term impact of an $8B investment in high speed rail, dependent on foreign technology and production, be on the bus operations in the USA? Forgone opportunity for urban America’s neighborhoods and rural USA? Can you imagine what an $8B investment in bus and bus facilities would do for American manufacturers and locations served by bus all over this Country?

By: roberto

roberto — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:52 +0000

High speed rail only makes sense in HIGH DENSITY corridors, and even there it rarely operates at anything approaching break-even.

In Florida, the most cost effective thing that could happen here would be to give the approx $1.5 billion to some other state, and let them figure out how to make it work without bankrupting the state. These proposals always seem to be justified with SEVERELY underestimated costs, GROSSLY overestimated ridership, WILD new job estimates that never appear, and POORLY understood operating costs.
Oh yes, tell me what you are supposed to do when you get off the high speed train. How do you get around after that?

In economic times like these, this is the last thing we need in Florida.

By: J Drake

J Drake — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:47:07 +0000

Wish such was privatized or at least somewhat. Nothing the gov. owns/runs does so at a profit. Whose TA is profitable out there? Point made.

By: Roger Bouchard

Roger Bouchard — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:43 +0000

Interesting, up here in Canada, Alberta to be more precise, we are having some rumbling with regard to high speed rail connecting our 2 largest cities, around a million people apiece, 300km (190 miles) apart. The word on the street is all aglow with the 1 hour trip between the cities which will beat air time because of check in, taxi time, weather delays, etc. etc. Of course our 3rd largest city is right in the middle of the two and are promising an uproar if they don’t get a stop on the trip, so add a few minutes extra time to do that.

I suspect some cooling to the idea when the reality of the situation sets in and we see 300km/h reduced to 160 and the trip time being around 2 hours. Not to mention the billions needed to build the thing. It would be far better to avoid the pie in the sky musing before it becomes nescesary to pull the rug out.

Just my thoughts.

By: Dwight Mengel

Dwight Mengel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:00:53 +0000

One missing piece of the high speed rail puzzle, that directly affects public transit systems, is the lack of intermodal integration with public transportation at both ends of the train trip. This problem was described on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112467963 – “A Hitch For Rail Riders: Getting To Final Destination”.

Where are there local strategies/programs for integrated mobility?