It is HSR. It's not the fastest HSR line in the world but it is still HSR.
For short trips, it's almost always faster to drive. Even if the train goes 200+ MPH, it's faster door-to-door to drive 80+ MPH on the interstates. With the train you have to commute to the station, go through security (many countries require this like China and you're a fool if you think the TSA wouldn't create checkpoints after the first terrorist attack on a train), wait for the train, wait at intermediate stops (which forces the train to decelerate, destroying its average speed), and commute to your final destination.
Major airports are funded by fees charged to airlines. Some of that money was even used to build the Orlando Brightline station.
"Just grade separate it!1!!1!!"
I view Mormons as the White version of Muslims, but they chilled out so I don't got too much beef with them.
Nope, the minimum speed is 200 km/h or 124 MPH. Brightline qualifies as HSR.
Yes, HSR is extremely expensive. That's why we shouldn't build it.
In what fucking world is 200 kmh HSR? 200 kmh is considered by most to be higher speed rail. True HSR is 155 mph+ which is only achieved in the US by the Acela Liberty.
No, it's only expensive when you're working with a line that has to go through a 100+ mile long urban area. Most HSR doesn't have to deal with those types of conditions for extended periods of time because most cities aren't as stretched out as the Miami Metro area is. This makes other projects less expensive per mile.
That's pretty retarded then.
Like CAHSR, which is built in a flat rural valley and is extremely affordable? You came into this thread all assmad that someone sued the government to stop them from wasting billions on CAHSR 2: Electric Boogaloo (building a rail line between Las Vegas and a random spot 50 miles east of Los Angeles).
Better than the Jewsperging.
CAHSR is an unmitigated disaster of a project that is thankfully undergoing some reorganization.
Mormons are evil fucks. Romney isnt an outlier but an exemplar of his kind. They arent White Muslims. They are White Jews. They will gleefully allow everyone to get fucked if they keep their kingdom of sand.
The initial operating segment of Brightline West ends in Victorville because that's the end of the easy bit before you have to go through the mountains. No one will ride a train from Victorville to Vegas so unless they get the feds/CA to pay for the expensive part of the route, they'll go bankrupt.
Or they can just declare bankruptcy like the Floridan branch of the company is about to.
They aren't building the Victorville station anymore lol.
Yes they would, people are willing to drive all the way to LAX to then ride on a delayed plane to get to Las Vegas and then either buy a rental or uber themselves around.
Sure that's possible but I have doubts that they'll do that for Brightline West because it's a very profitable corridor.
If they're driving, why would they park and risk their car being stolen (it is LA) when they could just keep driving and get there around the same time as the train and have the ability to go explore off the Strip? Brightline West has no market outside of railfans and urbanists which is why they're begging for the taxpayers to fund everything.
Brightline is attractive to people who fly between LA and Las Vegas. People who normally drive wouldn't hate the idea because if you're going to Las Vegas you aren't exactly in the habit of cutting corners so they wouldn't mind getting a rental or some ubers all that much. They'd likely have a shuttle service anyways which they already have in Florida iirc.
Oh vey, goyim. Do not question why the chosen have a better train system than you.
Makes sense, the Jews are experts when it comes to tunnels.
The average speed of Acela in actual use is only 1mph faster than the Brightline.
Brightline West's own projections are that they'd only get 20% market share by 2035, which is not enough to pay for their $21 billion in estimated costs (which were originally supposed to be $8 billion). Since the tickets are much more expensive than a flight and the total trip time is longer, even 20% share is optimistic.
