Sunday, December 5, 2010

Is High-Speed Rail Travel in America's Future?

 

two out of three Americans (62%) would "definitely or probably  use high-speed rail for leisure or business travel if a system was built. Another 27% said they weren't sure while only 11% said they "probably or definitely would not†use it….

service is expected to save one-third of the energy per passenger of airplanes and one-fifth the energy per passenger of automobiles

So it all comes back to you dear reader. Do you want to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, travel relatively inexpensively between cities 500 to 800 miles away or continue to fight the clogged roadways? You could also choose between passing nakedly through scanners or being groped by strangers instead of getting on a train that could have you at your destination in about the same time you'll wait to board your plane.

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