Fair point. Well to answer that question I believe it is worth it, but that's for another thread I suppose..
Which is precisely the reason why it is a fantastic idea. If Southwest's business is killed, then that means that people prefer the HSR. If people prefer HSR, then it is a superior form of transport. While I am in favor of Southwest's expansion of Hobby, I would root against them if they tried to stop HSR again.
sorry high speed rail freaks, that idea sailed away long ago with the the last of stimulus allocations. Doubt you will see that type of wasteful spending for a while. Terrible idea anyways
That's a pretty big b**** move by contine..... Err, united to layoff 1300 employees 3 YEARS before the first swa flight ever takes off. If you spend anytime in the presidents club you are very likely to run into smysek... I take it someone will give him an earful sooner rather then later.
United was probably happy to have an excuse/scapegoat to lay off more workers and downsize operations. The T rail plan isn't going forward (I don't believe), but a Houston-Dallas line might be: http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/05/houston-dallas-could-get-10-billion-bullet-train/
Sorry, party of no freaks, this is from two weeks ago headed by Judge Eckles. http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/05/houston-dallas-could-get-10-billion-bullet-train/ Brw, I though you GOPers were not into name calling?
I'm extremely pro-high speed rail if somebody else pays for it. I don't think that it should be funded by taxpayers because better alternatives exist. Airplanes and Megabus-style buses.
200+ million dollars to turn the Astrodome into a giant planetarium so that a bunch of old farts won't get butthurt is wasteful; infrastructure projects that greatly improve mobility and reduce costs for citizens are not wasteful.
That's less than 1/10 what's necessary. $10 Billion will build high speed rail from Houston to Spring.
$10 billion for 25 miles of HSR? Source? That means China is rocking out with their **** out to the tune of $2.5 trillion worth of HSR right now.
The newest estimate is that it will cost $117 Billion to build the high speed rail from San Francisco to Anaheim. That's almost $300 Million/mile. So I used 33% for hyperbole. Your $10 Billion will probably get you all the way to The Woodlands.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/anaheim-348999-rail-speed.html If you have a more recent estimate, please post.
No, that's more recent estimate than mine, but I can't understand how changing a short section of the track to low-speed rail saves $40 Billion. I'm certain that they are fudging the numbers.
I don't know that a California route would directly translate to the cost of a Texas route. The terrain and land values alone don't strike me as comparable. And again, the numbers being thrown around for Hou-Dal are well under $20B: http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/05/houston-dallas-could-get-10-billion-bullet-train/ For the topic, a recent Chron blog on the subject: http://blog.chron.com/opportunityurbanist/2012/05/thoughts-on-hsr-and-buses/ Though personally, I'm far more interested in getting to Austin in an hour or Dallas in 90 mins than I am in $10 wifi access.
Congrats to Hobby and this a win win for Houston and consumers... HSR would be nice, but until then, we're stuck with greyhound...not so HSP
