Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:Many years ago now Scientific American had a short article on speed of transportation. Their point was any technology that increases the speed of transport will be adopted and will be successful. The Concord be the only counter example.
Newfie wrote:Copied from l: THINKING; FAST AND SLOW
A 2005 study examined rail projects undertaken worldwide between 1969 and 1998. In more than 90% of the cases, the number of passengers projected to use the system was overestimated. Even though these passenger shortfalls were widely publicized, forecasts did not improve over those thirty years; on average, planners overestimated how many people would use the new rail projects by 106%, and the average cost overrun was 45%. As more evidence accumulated, the experts did not become more reliant on it.
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Newfie wrote:Many years ago now Scientific American had a short article on speed of transportation. Their point was any technology that increases the speed of transport will be adopted and will be successful. The Concord be the only counter example.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Subjectivist wrote:Rail is ideal for heavy bulky cargo or people not in a hurry.
Subjectivist wrote:Aircraft for speedy trips, private vehicles for short trips make high speed passenger rail a non-starter in North America. So your train can go 300km an hour? That's nice, my turboprop passenger plane goes 450 km/h ....
Newfie wrote:
I have read that in Philadelphia public transit usage is down by OVER 50%. That is gonna take a while to bounce back.
JuanP wrote:I hope you are correct about Biden and trains, Plantagenet, but I doubt it.
JuanP wrote:Biden will ....not have the time, money, or energy to build trains.
JuanP wrote:Biden will almost certainly be a one term president. He will spend his first year or two mostly dealing with COVID-19 and the economic devastation it caused in the USA.
JuanP wrote:I hope you are correct and I am wrong, but I will be extremely surprised if Biden pulls something like that off. I expect Biden to achieve very little or nothing at all worth getting excited about.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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