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It used to be 300 miles, the distance from Lyons to Paris. Our NEC is 450 miles. France's TGV has extended the line to Marsailles, to London, to the Netherlands with links to Germany's ICE trains...... 300 miles indeed! Already Virginia wants to extend the HSR line to Richmond, North Carolina wants to extend the line to Raleigh and Charlotte. Once we get to Charlotte, we are more than half the way to Atlanta, and Atlanta is two thirds of the way to Orlando, but why stop there, why not go all the way to Miami? There are a lot of people living in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida..... Pennsylvania wants to build HSR to Pittsburgh, and Chicago wants to build HSR to Detroit, why not fini***he line through Toledo and Cleveland? There are a lot of people living in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois..... Yes, we should build lines longer than 300 miles, or even longer than 450 miles. Why not go to the hub of the next largest population areas, such as Chicago, Atlanta and Florida, and on to Texas? Most of these lines have a distance of 800 to 900 miles.....with large cities inbetween..... Time traveled is 6 hours @ 150 mph over 900 miles. Six hours is not too long on a train. People fly more than 6 hours, people will ride a train for more than 6 hours. They do today! And as I noted before, many Amtrak passengers go all the way and then some.... Half the passengers traveling to Chicago get on another train..... However, if you have seen my map, you will notice that there isn't much population density west of Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Dallas, except for Denver, Seattle-Portland, and California. So I agree with you, it is fooli***o build HSR over the Rockies.... well, I wouldn't do so at the start of building HSR. Maybe later....... but lines can be built serving LA and the Bay area, and Portland and Seattle. Oh, by the way, the distance between LA and Oakland is further than 300 miles. So get off this 300 miles kick, or the 450 miles kick...... The whole point in building HSR is to provide choices for travelers...... whatever the distance! My map: http://homepage.mac.com/donclark/.Public/DonHSR.jpg
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