That's about the same speed it used to run when I rode it every weekend
during the summer of 1974. Maybe even a bit slower now than then. I
remember being stopped for hours in Philadelphia because the fire
department was fighting a large building fire and had their fire hoses
strung all over the tracks. The problem then as now was crumbling
railway infrastructure that would be inadequate now even if it was
repaired. How are you going to run a high speed train at street level
through Philadelphia? Who will provide the rights of way and power, etc
for something like Maglev trackage. Even if you did, who would ride it
at the price required to pay for the infrastructure development?
We got where we are because cars and truck are cheaper and more
efficient with our time. The major infrastructure investment (100s of
thousands of secondary and tertiary roads are already there and still
required whether trains are used or not.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/21/2015 10:02 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
In the meantime, the American Acella HST crawls along the Washington/Boston
corridor as a disgusting average of 65 MPH.
Chris
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