(06-22-2009 01:21 AM)RobertN Wrote: (06-22-2009 12:25 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote: (06-21-2009 11:54 PM)RobertN Wrote: (06-21-2009 11:39 PM)TomorrowHerd Wrote: Most highway congestion is going to and from work. A high speed rail will not help this. To do this we will have to buy up all the land, do all kinds of environmental surveys, blah blah blah and it will have no real benefit. It is a pipe dream by people who want to be like Europe. I like travelling by train, but would not do it in the states.
A high speed rail line would also be VERY easy for terrorists to attack.
Drill baby drill!
THAT would have GREAT benefit!!!!
Good, Robert!!! You are showing some potential. Now we just have to work on you posting slogans in the right threads. 
Benefit for who? Investors? Oil companies? Of course, you know I was making fun of your stupid ass comments. Ruining Floridauh's beaches is not going to solve our problems. Burning oil longer than we should be helps nobody. "We should just build more roads(or atleast pave the highways in WV). We should spend billions more on airports. But **** train travel. It is just a huge pork project and is just a waste of resources. No reason to have convenient inter-city travel. I have my rusty pickup with the gun rack on back."
My friend in Canada tells me how they have their rail systems worked out so that they are effective and efficient at the same time.
He said instead of either Elevated Trains that just stop at "Stations" or Subway Trains that do the same, the way the Canadians worked out their system, was to run the entire rail line under every building inside the city - - this way, you stay out of the weather, you get dropped off exactly at your building of work and there is no hawking the streets for blocks and blocks walking from a Subway or an El Train's fragmented stop schedule.
He said that hardly anyone drives because it is kind of foolish to do so when the Rail System simply gets you where you need to go with no hassle.
He says that he simply walks down to the Rail Stop under his Apartment Building, gets on the Train and it takes him directly to work with no weirdness mixed in.
Now anyone could see how that would work and if you needed to get to a certain Street, you just get off the Rail at which ever building is closest to that street and you walk thru the building and out the front door - - not the opposite way we do it in the U.S. ....
Instead of 150 MPH Bullet Trains that are made for long distance travel, why not rework our systems to mimic the Canadian way.
To Common Sense for us I guess and with the Bright Lights we now have running the circus, Bullet Trains are the Supreme Answer to All our Travel needs.
Why we can go from 110th Street Stop to 111th Street Stop in just under .02 Seconds with the Bullet Train !!!!!! Geniuses I tell you !!!!!! Bleendin' Geniuses .....
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