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Three hours of flight time was the old standard, before 9-11. Now that flyers must arrive at airports two hours or more before the flight, a five hour train trip is just as effective. Get real! <br /> <br />Notice that the longest French HSR line has been extended southward to Marsailles, and northward into the Netherlands, plus using the Chunnel into the United Kingdom. From London there are two fast trains, if not trully TGV HSR, all the way to Scotland. The French are buiding links to the German and Italian HSR lines. <br /> <br />Three hours is definitely the old standard..... even in Europe. With HSR grades are not significant, sharp curves are..... therefore their solution to grades are tunnels and bridges...... In a New York City to Chicago line, the toughest grades would be in Pennsylvania, but these grades are not the Rockies or the Alps are they? <br /> <br />Yes, we should build between city pairs, in my opinion city pairs of 5 million of metropolitan populations would be a good place to start..... Philadelphia to Cleveland to Detroit to Chicago fills the bill. Dallas to Houston fills the bill. LA to Oakland fills the bill. Atlanta to Miami fills the bill. Chicago to Atlanta fills the bill.Then we can fill in the gaps at a later time with city pairs as low as 2.5 million in metropolitan populations, such as Atlanta to the Piedmont area of North Carolina ( Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem ) and on to DC, Houston to New Orleans and on to Atlanta, Dallas to Kansas City to St. Louis and on to Chicago..... finishing a parallegram: New York City to Atlanta to Houston to Chicago to New York City. Other branches could be built, such as Chicago to Minneapolis, Chicago to Toronto, New York City to Toronto and Montreal, Cincinnati to Cleveland, etc.....
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