Re: French set new rail speed record
On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
Miami to Atlanta is over 600 miles as the crow flies. 600 miles is longer than any fast train route in the world, if you don’t include connections through Tokyo.
We are going to kill ourselves if we keep flying as much as we do.
There’s just no two ways about it. So we have to find substitutes,
and high-speed trains are an excellent candidate. You can try as hard
as you like to find reasons to argue against them, but it’s not going
to change the fact that we can’t keep spewing greenhouse gases and
water vapor into the upper atmosphere with mad abandon.
Doug