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Again, I can only comment on the northeast operations: an airliner is faster - in the air. But, a train gets you to downtown NY City where you were trying to get to in the 1st place. This is how we had over taken Eastern Airlines, making them the #2 carrier of passengers from Wash. DC to NY. Amtrak became #1. When you take a flight you have to consider the travel time to the departing airport, how long you have to wait for the runway to clear your flight to take off, then, land. Once in NY, you now face a costly cab ride of 45 minutes, or, longer, just to get to downtown Manhatten. The bullet train post: in japan, that's the Only train allowed to run on those tracks. We inter-mix freights on the rails here. and, that was something that had impressed the French RR visitor who had once come out here to see a high speed crossover we had placed into service (it was a French product). They couldn't believe the size of the American freight cars, plus, how we could mix freight and passenger service. MagLev trains: Balt. to Washington was a contender for this train. A train that cost over $800 million per mile to install and could only shave off 8 or so minutes from our existing MARC commuter trains. Wow, there was sure a lot of rail "excitement, interest" for that train! We wi***hat kind of excitement would be directed at the existing Amtrak the country now has and try to improve on that!! The MagLev train would have had only 3 passenger stations: Wash DC, BWI Airport, and Baltimore. So, you're going to drive through the already congested roads in this area to get to a major city's MagLev station, wondering how long you'll be tied up in traffic to get to that station, to board the MagLev to save a few minutes compared to the MARC train?? The MARC train makes more station stops = more convenience. Communities here have grown because of the MARC train (owned by the state but operated by Amtrak crews). I've seen it 1st hand where the small town of Odenton, Md has exploded in population, where this once little commuter stop has now had its parking lot expanded already 3 times (free parking still). BWI station now has 2 muli-level parking garages with a free bus shuttle to move passengers from the train station to the airport. We'll just have to wait and see what happens in October - which is the start of Amtrak's fiscal year 2006.
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