Have fun with your trains
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz Six miles in 90 minutes! I can't even imagine what that must be like, going an average of 4mph for that long. People should get a ride to the freeway, get dropped off, and just walk. How frustrating would that be for drivers to watch people WALK past their car on the freeway!! Or take a bike. Of course, one would have to be doing that exercise amongst all those fumes of the idling chrome mountains. Just imagine the fun in an 11-mile long tunnel when some dipweed on his/her cell phone rear-ends someone because they were too busy talking and forgot to take off their sunglasses, and causes a major pile-up. Just think of the fumes, the claustrophobia; and it would be even better during a quake when the power goes out and all 11 miles are in total blackness. Let the good times roll!
QUOTE: Originally posted by tomtrain Is there any way railroads in some form could address this situation? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051112/ap_on_sc/tangled_commute
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith They do this in the Chunnel under the English channel, the downside is that it can take a while to load and unload the train. That would likely eliminate any time gain advantages to drive on/off . In the Chunnel the car-train is basicly a ferry on wheels.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Tulyar15 QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith They do this in the Chunnel under the English channel, the downside is that it can take a while to load and unload the train. That would likely eliminate any time gain advantages to drive on/off . In the Chunnel the car-train is basicly a ferry on wheels. In my experiences of taking my car on the Chunnel Shuttle it doesn't take too long to load and unload the shuttle trains; its certainly quicker than the ferries which is why the Chunnel has the lions share of the truck market; a lot of people not in a hurry still use the ferries. As for earthquake protection, I believe the tunnels on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) are designed to withstand earthquakes though I'm not sure how. With regard to fire precautions the Swiss have been running car and truck shuttle trains under the Alps for many years. So naturally Eurotunnel asked them to review their safery precautions. The Swiss were so impressed with Eurotunnel's safety precautions that they revised theirs as a result.
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