It is amazing how the 80 billion, for Amtrak, means high speed rail projects all around the country, if you believe some news articles and, especially, what the local TV news station reporters tend to regurgitate.
The infrastructure repair, in the NEC, will gobble up something like 38 billion according to many. Not much left for HSR.
The 80 billion wouldn't even have payed for Calif. HSR, which was projected to cost 100 billion.
Richard
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
HSR Charlotte to Atlanta? There is so much wrong with this it would be difficult to know where to begin. Ignorance combined with stupidity is about all I can say as a summary. 1. Are they thinking about buying the ex SouRR main? 2. Is there any awareness of the alignment geometry of this piece of railroad? 3. What sort of passenger volume are they anticipating? and on and on. I don't know what these people are smoking, "but it shore ain't tobaccy."
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
For ready reference, here is the text of Joe's remarks at Penn Coach, which are linked within the material Richard presented when opening this topic:
There's also a link to a Press Conference held while in flight with Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki. "Color herself lucky" she did not have to field a question to the effect of "If trains are so great, why are we up here?"
Possibly someone knows, which aircraft, a VC-25 (747) or C-32 (757), was Air Force One on this Mission?
Now regarding Mr. Harris' immediate, I guess the Charlotte-Atlanta terrain would be a bit more hospitable than Nashville-Atlanta. Otherwise, somebody is just throwing darts at Capitol City pairs to see which ones just might stick. True, NC is "passenger train friendly", or at least within their own borders and with like "friendly, contiguous VA. Sure cannot say same of SC or GA.
But when China conquers the US, likely by disabling any electronic command and control systems within the Armed Forces and as "bloodless" as was theirs of Hong Kong, that is when these HSR proposals could come to pass.