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[quote user="BigRusty"] <p>Having ridden the Chunnel Train from London to Paris, it was the rail riding thrill of a lfetime. True it was on straighter track than in the New England Corridor, but we have to work with what is there. We could build some good rail race tracks, i.e. Tucson-Phoenix, but the money just isn't there. </p><p>Believe me, there will come a day when we will sorely regret the demise of the passenger carrying railroads whn the airways become suiper saturated with Jumbo Jets.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>No not jumbos... Jumbos have thier place and should have bedrooms for the very long hauls instead of jamming people in 48" of space like cattle.</p><p>Moller Skycars. Look them up.. they are expecting flight certification by Dec '08. There are some already being designed for around 80,000 dollars and capable of road/air use. The FAA is designing a license class specifically for this type of transport which will be somewhere between ultralight and Private Pilot General Aviation.</p><p>Theoratically you can put regular gas into one and zip to little rock in the rush hour bypassing the choked and gridlocked freeway below. Instead of 1 hour fighting that, you are at work in 10 minutes or so, excepting issues with the Memphis Center and Little Rock's Approach.</p><p>Heck I dont use the freeway anymore. I use three seperate twolane roads and one stop light to get to little rock and only now people are beginning to crowd the road having discovered it.</p><p>No. Amtrack on the Corridor is the last to stop hauling people in bad winter storms that already shut down the major airfields around the major cities. When the track switches freeze up and becomes too bad to run then you know it's pretty rough.</p><p>Tuscon is really poor land and rather rough. Phoenix to Las Vegas would be a much better.</p>
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