So close and yet so far from being a decent high-speed rail line.What can be done to make the Acela and the Northeast Corridor better?
>>2067557Don't buy Alstom next time lol
Money..........money and time.
>>2067557have things worth actually going to along it and finally admit that high speed rail is a total meme because wfh is better than enabling long-distance commuting
>>2067565>have things worth actually going to along itI get that Philly and Baltimore are a bit rough but NYC and DC alone should carry this route.>long-distance commutingThis is a total meme, HSR is a replacement or complement for short-haul flights, and its primary users are business travelers and where the fares are not outrageous leisure travelers, not daily commuters.
>>2067568who tf is working normally in NYC or DC who needs to visit the other one in person instead of doing that shit over Microsoft Teams
>>2067557quad-track the entire route and increase top speeds in the slowest areas
If all goes well with Brightline West we should see a proper HSR connecting cities in California plus Las Vegas within the next 2-3 years
>>2067557>What can be done to make the Acela and the Northeast Corridor better?Double the train length, with the extra parts being a coach service.Ease or bypass bottlenecks.Increase the frequency (though that's starting to get real expensive).
>>2067557>What can be done to make the Acela and the Northeast Corridor better?Fix this
>>2067595There is a problem with Brightline.Compared to the Northeast Corridor, its stations are located farther from city centers.
>>2067557Acelas awesome but there's not much they can do to improve service. The cost for construction projects is so high and the amount of construction to get it to Shinkansen level speeds and trip times it's just not feasible. It's the best way to travel around the northeast though. They just need to run it more and promote it more
The tunnels under the Hudson will always be a bottleneck. Even without orange man playing political spite games withholding funds, it will take years before anything is built.
>>2068122>something that the government has a stake in isn't great because everything should be perfect and it won't be perfect in the future even if I try to improve things somewhat>so I will intentionally sabotage it in a dramatic way to make it worse than it is now because this gives me a much-needed sense of control Munchausen by proxy + BPD is a hell of a drug
>>2068125You’d think a guy who hypes himself as a builder and a get shit done alpha male would grab the reins and make it happen. Name it after himself, make sure his cronies get their cut, but just build the fucking tunnels. This isn’t a case of “wow, it’d be great if folks rode trains like in Yurop and Japan, man!” It’s the closest thing we have to a high speed rail corridor, carrying shitloads of passengers to the nation’s mightiest city. The Pennsylvania Railroad led by top hatted robber barons slammed out the Hudson tunnels, Penn Station, and Sunnyside Yards, all electrified, one of the great infrastructure works of the era, using Edwardian technology. I’m ashamed of how far my country has fallen.
>>2067557You dont need it. Stop pointlessly moving around. Sleepy joe abusing it was its greatest black eye.
>>2068143>I’m ashamed of how far my country has fallen.Now come on
>>2067570that no one can answer this is why high speed rail fails in the current erait's literally obsolete when fibre optics exist. lower speed rail is comfier for tourists and it is totally unsuitable for freight. hsr is a fucking meme, though to its credit, only has been so for about ten years
>>2068197I can see Brightline West working but it's relying on the CAHSR project to provide access to people in the LA-OC area, which looks like it's going to be the biggest infrastructural bottleneck. There are tens of millions of commuters between LA and Las Vegas, and I'm sure most people would rather beat the traffic along the I-15 just to get away for gambling on the weekend. I know I would
If it wasn't for Acela 34 million more people would use the airports of the northeast and they're already super congested.
>>2067557Trains that leave my station on weekends earlier than 4pm so I could make day trips to visit DC or my family.
>>2068276Baconrider escaped from his tard wranglers again
>>2067769Increasing frequency just means running empty trains, which makes them less efficient than personal automobiles.>>2068122>>2068125>>2068143Stop samefagging. The state, and especially city, of New York needs to sort out its budget before anyone starts pouring MORE money on them to do infrastructure their insane taxes should already be able to cover.
>>2068288>The state, and especially city, of New York needs to sort out its budget before anyone starts pouring MORE money on them to do infrastructure their insane taxes should already be able to cover.Checked. A problem, as I see it, is that cities of NYC's size should really be their own national sub-unit. But that's not how American federalism works, so we have people from Albany deciding matters in Brooklyn.
>>2068288Man you really suck at detecting samefag
>>2068119It doesn't NEED to run at over 180 mph along its entire ruote, it's only really the Connecticut section that's unacceptably slow and needs a big bypass.A big pipedream, since the the new trains can do that, would be a Midwest and/or a Southeast corridor connected to the Acela and hitting those really high speeds but that's not happening in this decade or the next.
>>2068289>we have people from Albany deciding matters in Brooklyn.Actually, given the massive population of the city, it's the opposite. Most of the state is red, but Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx dictate policy to the rest of everyone.>>2068296Sorry, samefags and circle jerks look so similar.
>>2068299>Actually, given the massive population of the city, it's the opposite. Most of the state is red, but Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx dictate policy to the rest of everyone.Checked again. Neither should be happening. Upstate and NYC would both be better off and better governed if some sort of "divorce" happened. I'm ignoring the US Senate and national politics, to be clear. Also, the MTA's governance structure is a nightmare.
