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You can fly coast to coast in 4 hours is a lie. By the time you add the 2 hour wait to go through security, it is actually 6 hours. Add another hour (some live closer to and then some live further from the airport) to get to the airport, and from the airport to your destination and home, it is 8 hours. Yes, big business considers flying a day of work.... Up to the 6 hour mark high speed trains are as effective time wise as any airliner. Buiding a network of high speed trains will provide the traveler more choices they currently don't have. The idea is to drive prices down, not up, especially in the smaller city category. It is easy to find a cheap airline ticket from Chicago to Dallas, but it isn't so easy to find a cheap airline ticket from Oklahoma City to Chicago....It is easy to find a cheap airline ticket from Dallas to Atlanta, but it isn't as easy to find a cheap airline ticket from Dallas to Birmingham.... However, you will point out it is 800 miles from Dallas to Atlanta, but to Birmingham it is 700 miles. You might be shocked to find out it is cheaper to fly from Birmingham to Atlanta than it is to fly from Birmingham to Jackson, but not as cheap to fly from Dallas to Atlanta. The airlines are based on hubs, flying to hubs is cheap, flying anywhere else is expensive. To fly from Birmingham to Jackson there is a very good chance you will have to fly to Atlanta and make a connection.... A high speed train along that route will obviously drive airline tickets down..... There are many cities in America that have that problem, expensive airline tickets, that would be well served if another mode of transportation was available.....
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