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Hypothetical Scenario: Where should the high-speed rail go?
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[quote user="Gavriel609"] <p>We all know that Japan and Europe are beating us in practically everything except for diabetes/obesity, carbon emissions and failing students, but something I personally cannot stand is that they're beating us in high-speed rails. So, suppose the following:</p><p>Someone has offered to lend our country $20 billion to build a high-speed railway. Something that all of you may notice is that this money is only going to heavily support one rail line. Here are the options:</p><p>A. Make the Adrionack line (New York City - Montreal) high-speed</p><p>B. Make the Empire State/Maple Leaf (New York - Buffalo - Toronto) high-speed</p><p>C. Build a high-speed line for California (San Diego - L.A. - Sacramento/San Francisco), noting that luckly, the Govenator has already approved of this plan</p><p>D. Build a high-speed line for the Texas Triangle (Houston - Austin - San Antonio - Dallas)</p><p>E. Build a high-speed line for Florida (Tampa - Miami - Orlando)</p><p>F. Make the Cascades line (Eugene - Portland - Seattle + Vancouver, BC) high-speed</p><p>G. Follow CSX's plan to make Washington D.C. - Miami "the corridor of the future"</p><p>H. Build awesome locomotives to gain our dignity and set a new speed record</p><p>I. Suggest something yourself: ____________________</p><p>J. Remain Americans, and do nothing </p><p>Please note that there are many more options. Remember that we're looking for the system that would be the most efficient, both profitable and evironmental. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>I would have to say D. There are so many people that are moving to the State of Texas, and for those who come fromt he North to go to the beaches and things like that would love the trains since they would not have to drive an extra 8 or 12 hours to get there. This would also open a lot of Jobs for those people that want to work on the railroads. Just to Tote my own horn Texas also has the #1 transit company in all the USA so the trains could take pointers since the transit company also operates its own high speed trains.</p>
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