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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Juniperhouse I BELIEVE THE UNITED STATES SHOULD BUILD A NATIONAL NETWORK OF NEW, DEDICATED, HSR LINES COAST-TO-COAST AND NORTH TO SOUTH. I WOULD RECOMMEND THREE E/W LINES (I.E., NORTHERN TIER OF CITIES, CENTRAL US DC/BALT. TO SAN FRANCISCO, SOUTHERN TIER OF CITIES, AND THREE NORTH-SOUTH LINES--WEST COAST, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CHICAGO-NEW ORLEANS, EAST COAST. CONNECTIONS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED AT KEY NODAL POINTS FOR INTEROPERABILITY. LINES WOULD BE PRIVATELY OPERATED, OVER PUBLICLY-OWNED RIGHTS-OF-WAY CREATED BY GOVERNMENT LAND CONDEMNATION AND RE-USE OF EXISTING ROW IN URBAN AREAS (LIKE FRANCE, FOR EXAMPLE). TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE STEEL-WHEEL-ON-STEEL-RAIL, WITH THREE TIERS OF SERVICE: NONSTOP COAST-TO-COAST, EXPRESS BETWEEN KEY CITIES, AND EVERY-CITY SERVICE. LINES WOULD BE DOUBLE-TRACKED WITH HIGH-SPEED CROSSOVERS. FINANCING WOULD BE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (LIKE ORIGINAL RRS IN 19TH CENT). YOUR THOUGHTS? JOSEPH J. SNYDER SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV E-MAIL: SWS@INTREPID.NET [/quote] Gov Frank O'Bannon (Indiana) was kicking around some story about HSR from Pittsburgh to Chicago utilizing the old Pennsey right of way, through Ft Wayne, but the plan was laden with so many if's, ands, buts, and potential "gotcha" s that it seemed more a ruse than anything else. First of all it was all solicitous as to how much local backing might be obtainable, and while referancing a "private enterprise" who would be chiefly responsible as dev/operator was careful to not name the party, nor indicate the financial commitment they were willing to put into "their" end of it.. Further, the "high speed" end of it would not come for 10 years, and only then if "ridership merited the further investmenment" Sounds like a whammy in the making, if you ask me, I can just hear it all now "cancel the high speed, local private investment was too scant, and ridership too sparce to justify the main investor commiting more of their own funds, so don't blame the primary investor for the failure of the locals or the riders" In the mean time the primary's make a nice grab on tthe Amtrak assets, having duped "joe sixpak" into gleefully abandoning same in a "fire sale" as a preliminary in the hubris of expectation of something that ain't never gonna be fulfillled. Yes, I think it's all a clever scam devised as part of a ruse to facilitate the liquidation of Amtrak, sorry.
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