Re: French set new rail speed record
On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
It seems to me Jordan is arguing that it’s geography that makes the U.S. a plane and car/truck country.
If you’re travelling from one end to the other, sure, but there’s
lots of travel like Miami-Atlanta, NY-DC, Boston-Portland (ME, not
OR), SF-Seattle, Milwaukee-Chicago, Houston-Dallas, etc., that would
be perfect for high-speed trains. If carbon were priced properly,
plane travel would not be so cheap (esp with a surcharge for the
water vapor problem Gar mentioned), filling the tank on the Escalade
would get a lot more expensive, and there’d be lots of demand for
high-speed trains.
Doug