Impact of Proposed high speed rail

[Eugene]

[quote=EconProf]I used to ask my students in a show of hands how many were for mass transit. Most would raise their hands.
Then I’d ask the class (at SDSU) how many rode the bus to campus today. Maybe 10% would raise their hands. Yet SDSU is largely a commuter campus well-connected by bus routes and a trolley track to apartment-type neighborhoods. SDSU also has a parking space shortage and the permit really costs.
.[/quote]

Are you implying that 90% of SDSU students own cars and drive them to campus every day? Which, between car payments, insurance, and parking permit, would add something like $500/month to their expenses.

But what about residence halls? They are right across the street from the campus.

[briansd1]

About high-speed train (as opposed to light rail) it’s an alternative to short plane rides (which are long if you add in the waiting and communiting time), and long car drives.

Anybody who’s been to Europe or Japan knows how nice it it so travel easily from city center to city center without the waits.

If we won’t spend money on high speed rail, we ought to upgrade our airports. When comparing the premier airports of the world, we can clearly see that America is falling behind.

We used to have the greatest train stations and the greatest aiports. But no longer.

[briansd1]

About high-speed train (as opposed to light rail) it’s an alternative to short plane rides (which are long if you add in the waiting and communiting time), and long car drives.

Anybody who’s been to Europe or Japan knows how nice it it so travel easily from city center to city center without the waits.

If we won’t spend money on high speed rail, we ought to upgrade our airports. When comparing the premier airports of the world, we can clearly see that America is falling behind.

We used to have the greatest train stations and the greatest aiports. But no longer.

[briansd1]

About high-speed train (as opposed to light rail) it’s an alternative to short plane rides (which are long if you add in the waiting and communiting time), and long car drives.

Anybody who’s been to Europe or Japan knows how nice it it so travel easily from city center to city center without the waits.

If we won’t spend money on high speed rail, we ought to upgrade our airports. When comparing the premier airports of the world, we can clearly see that America is falling behind.

We used to have the greatest train stations and the greatest aiports. But no longer.

[briansd1]

About high-speed train (as opposed to light rail) it’s an alternative to short plane rides (which are long if you add in the waiting and communiting time), and long car drives.

Anybody who’s been to Europe or Japan knows how nice it it so travel easily from city center to city center without the waits.

If we won’t spend money on high speed rail, we ought to upgrade our airports. When comparing the premier airports of the world, we can clearly see that America is falling behind.

We used to have the greatest train stations and the greatest aiports. But no longer.

[briansd1]

About high-speed train (as opposed to light rail) it’s an alternative to short plane rides (which are long if you add in the waiting and communiting time), and long car drives.

Anybody who’s been to Europe or Japan knows how nice it it so travel easily from city center to city center without the waits.

If we won’t spend money on high speed rail, we ought to upgrade our airports. When comparing the premier airports of the world, we can clearly see that America is falling behind.

We used to have the greatest train stations and the greatest aiports. But no longer.

[briansd1]

Interesting article about high-speed trains in China.

Wow… what a difference a few years make.

I remember visiting China when the trains were so packed that passengers had to sit on the floor of the train cars.

I remember riding slow, dusty trains in China without air conditioning.

For the United States and Europe, the implications go beyond marveling at the pace of Communist-style civil engineering. As trains traveling 320 kilometers per hour link cities and provinces that were previously as much as 24 hours by road or rail from the entrepreneurial seacoast, China’s manufacturing might and global-export machine are likely to grow more powerful.

[briansd1]

Interesting article about high-speed trains in China.

Wow… what a difference a few years make.

I remember visiting China when the trains were so packed that passengers had to sit on the floor of the train cars.

I remember riding slow, dusty trains in China without air conditioning.

For the United States and Europe, the implications go beyond marveling at the pace of Communist-style civil engineering. As trains traveling 320 kilometers per hour link cities and provinces that were previously as much as 24 hours by road or rail from the entrepreneurial seacoast, China’s manufacturing might and global-export machine are likely to grow more powerful.

[briansd1]

Interesting article about high-speed trains in China.

Wow… what a difference a few years make.

I remember visiting China when the trains were so packed that passengers had to sit on the floor of the train cars.

I remember riding slow, dusty trains in China without air conditioning.

For the United States and Europe, the implications go beyond marveling at the pace of Communist-style civil engineering. As trains traveling 320 kilometers per hour link cities and provinces that were previously as much as 24 hours by road or rail from the entrepreneurial seacoast, China’s manufacturing might and global-export machine are likely to grow more powerful.

[briansd1]

Interesting article about high-speed trains in China.

Wow… what a difference a few years make.

I remember visiting China when the trains were so packed that passengers had to sit on the floor of the train cars.

I remember riding slow, dusty trains in China without air conditioning.

For the United States and Europe, the implications go beyond marveling at the pace of Communist-style civil engineering. As trains traveling 320 kilometers per hour link cities and provinces that were previously as much as 24 hours by road or rail from the entrepreneurial seacoast, China’s manufacturing might and global-export machine are likely to grow more powerful.

[briansd1]

Interesting article about high-speed trains in China.

Wow… what a difference a few years make.

I remember visiting China when the trains were so packed that passengers had to sit on the floor of the train cars.

I remember riding slow, dusty trains in China without air conditioning.

For the United States and Europe, the implications go beyond marveling at the pace of Communist-style civil engineering. As trains traveling 320 kilometers per hour link cities and provinces that were previously as much as 24 hours by road or rail from the entrepreneurial seacoast, China’s manufacturing might and global-export machine are likely to grow more powerful.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=EconProf]Americans tend to want mass transit so other people get off the freeway and let them speed along in thier own car.[/quote]

Well said.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=EconProf]Americans tend to want mass transit so other people get off the freeway and let them speed along in thier own car.[/quote]

Well said.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=EconProf]Americans tend to want mass transit so other people get off the freeway and let them speed along in thier own car.[/quote]

Well said.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=EconProf]Americans tend to want mass transit so other people get off the freeway and let them speed along in thier own car.[/quote]

Well said.

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