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Rudy: <br /> <br />I disagree with your statement that HSR is meant only to compete against air transit. What about interstate travel? By far, it is the leading mode of choice for most Americans who travel- and most of these trips are in the below 1k miles <br /> <br />Example: Washington State chose to invest in the Cascades Corridor instead of adding capacity to I-5- it was much cheaper, and while it's impact is minor, it has produced a very successful and well used system. <br /> <br />Sharing tracks with one of the busiest PNW freight corridors, the joint line from Portland to Seattle, it operates at speeds below 79MPH and still manages to make it to town only about 30 minutes after the average car transit time. When investments in track structure and signalling are complete within the next decade, these trains will reach speeds of 90+, and be able to cut transit times to about 2.4 hours- faster than by auto and, couting terminal delays,competitive with Horizon shuttle flights out of PDX. <br /> <br />And anyway, the idea is for incrementalism, the 90mph limit being interim until better structure can be built. 90+ is certainly better than what Amtrak does now, so it would be an improvement over the status qou. <br /> <br />And of course, 90mph is much better than 0. <br /> <br />Best, Alexander
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