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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Tulyar15</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by KCMOWMAN</i> <br /><br />You dudes are deep. <br /> <br />Let's make it simple, you can't move enough people, as fast, as cheaply, <br />as you can in an airplane, to make it worthwhile. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Rubbish! Air lines are only cheaper because they dont pay tax on fuel. Since air is the least environmentally friendly form of transport, this indirect susbidy is indefensible. <br />[/quote]Well, now he has a point. Airlines even though the government keeps up most of their infrastructure, still have much less than any possible railroads. Airlines don't run on tracks, that need replaced. Other than airports, air traffic doesn't get congested and slowed down, in flight. Airlines may always be leading passenger trains to their grave. Here is a little reasoning about a HSL; it must be cross-country compete with airlines and a long enough route to make it worth high speed. All the routes we have proposed are fairly short, not long cross-country routes, which require copious amounts of funding.
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