Re: Are we the only ones getting screwed ?????

I'm sure he will say you take commuter rail downtown, then get on the
train. Hope you didn't have too much luggage.
That brings up the other problem with trains, not only do you need to
buy thousands of miles of right of way, you also need parking near the
station with some kind of shuttle to the train. Suddenly this "quick
trip" starts becoming more complicated and pretty soon you are back
with all the problems you had at the airport.
If it is hard to find parking out in the cow field, imagine how tough
it will be in the city.

Posted by Percival P. Cassidy on April 13, 2008, 3:32 pm

On 04/13/08 12:42 pm gfretwell@aol.com wrote:

>> Most of the time on the outbound trip you are substituting a trip

>>from your cornfield to another for a trip from your cornfield to

>> downtown.

> I'm sure he will say you take commuter rail downtown, then get on the

> train. Hope you didn't have too much luggage.

> That brings up the other problem with trains, not only do you need to

> buy thousands of miles of right of way, you also need parking near the

> station with some kind of shuttle to the train. Suddenly this "quick

> trip" starts becoming more complicated and pretty soon you are back

> with all the problems you had at the airport.

> If it is hard to find parking out in the cow field, imagine how tough

> it will be in the city.

Perhaps they could do what the Makro stores (German or Dutch Costco-like
stores) did in Taiwan: build multi-story parking above the store
proper -- reduced the air-conditioning costs too. IOW, build parking
structures above the train stations.

Perce

Posted by on April 13, 2008, 11:38 am

>Per Amtrak, a round trip from Cleveland to Chicago Union station is $118

>and you start and end up downtown.

So the train already exists, how many people actually take it?

Posted by on March 30, 2008, 5:30 pm

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:42:54 -0700 (PDT), "hallerb@aol.com"

>once terrorists shoot some commercial airliners out of the sky mag lev

>will surge.........

It will be a whole lot easier for a terrorist to hit a train. At 300
MPH they could wreck one with a big rock.

Posted by hallerb@aol.com on March 30, 2008, 12:46 pm

taxpayers pay for roads...........

railroads have to pay for rails........

made rail cost more for many years.

rail lines should be electrified

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