President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
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Re: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
#2I wish the map were higher definition. I see a line from San Antonio (or Austin?) to El Paso, my most traveled route, but nothing in the text description about it. There are also some other lines linking the Texas Triangle which would be great!
Regardless, I hope this plan sees fruition in a reasonable timeframe. Further investments in transit within cities themselves would be welcome too, given a lot of folks may be renting a car at 1 end of a high speed rail trip, but this seems great.
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#3What about Chicago to Saint Louis?
Re: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
#4The US would really benefit from a high speed rail network even if it connects just a few hubs imo.
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#5With the amount of semi-trucks I see on the highway crisscrossing this country constantly it seems it might be better to just focus on getting our existing freight traffic off the roads before we worry about passenger traffic.
*I'm not talking about last mile deliveries, or suggesting the entire trucking industry can be magically turned into railroad freight.
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#6Money laundering/pork claims coming from the usual suspects not withstanding, I’m hopeful that the technology that gets developed under this helps boost California’s miserable failure in connecting Fresno to Visalia or wherever it’s located currently.
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#7I wish the map were higher definition. I see a line from San Antonio (or Austin?) to El Paso, my most traveled route, but nothing in the text description about it. There are also some other lines linking the Texas Triangle which would be great! Regardless, I hope this plan sees fruition in a reasonable timeframe. Further investments in transit within cities themselves would be welcome too, given a lot of folks may be…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/ has a larger, zoomable map.
It doesn’t show railways, though, but may show railway station investments (I didn’t look hard for them)
Re: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
#8With the amount of semi-trucks I see on the highway crisscrossing this country constantly it seems it might be better to just focus on getting our existing freight traffic off the roads before we worry about passenger traffic. *I'm not talking about last mile deliveries, or suggesting the entire trucking industry can be magically turned into railroad freight.
US Freight Rail is among the most utilized and most efficient in the world.
Freight Rail is actually the reason why our passenger rail sucks so much, because in USA, Freight has priority over passengers. So a lot of our passenger rails sit waiting for the freight-trains to pass.
Re: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
#9I wish the map were higher definition. I see a line from San Antonio (or Austin?) to El Paso, my most traveled route, but nothing in the text description about it. There are also some other lines linking the Texas Triangle which would be great! Regardless, I hope this plan sees fruition in a reasonable timeframe. Further investments in transit within cities themselves would be welcome too, given a lot of folks may be…
There's a _slightly_ better one on the DOT site (https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden...), and that site links to a PDF with some more in depth info on the projects (https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/fy22-23-FSP-National-rail...).
The LA-Las Vegas route sounds interesting to me. That road tends to get really bad on the weekends, so I think it would serve a need for the bougie set that don't want to deal with traffic.
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#10If California rail cost currently at $200 million per mile, is any indication, the $8.2 billion in new funding should be able to help build 42 miles of high speed rail. Something like NYC to Westchester Country New York
https://www.hoover.org/research/little-engine-couldnt-califo...