Because line straightening for it is pretty much impossible. It does reach 160 mph in some segments but it isn't enough.
They were only gonna be $8 billion in like 2017. Inflation is a bitch + labor and material costs went up dramatically. Also by 20% market share, are you referring to ridership? If so then this means that annually it'd be getting for 10 million riders since that stretch of the I-15 has 55 million trips taken on it by non-commercial vehicles. The ticket price (according to some document that I still can't find again) is supposed to be 118 for a regular and 130 or something for the premium. 10 million+ trips taken per year at a cost of 100+ per ticket should be enough for profitability.
That's only a billion dollars a year. They'd have a $21 billion debt (likely more in reality) and running the train isn't free. They'll be "profitable" like the other Brightline where if they go bankrupt and screw their bondholders and investors, the new buyer will be able to operate the train, but that's not profitable by any normal definition.
Keep in mind that other airlines get plenty of rides and charge far more. The people who fly on Frontier and the people who fly on Delta are gonna have a different reaction to Brightlines ticket prices.
A billion dollars a year is a lot actually. Realistically the operating costs would be in the 300-500 million range annually leaving the rest of the money to pay of interest and do regular payments. This also isn't including the extra money they would make off real estate investments in and around the stations.
Ive ridden the new Tel Aviv - Jerusalem line. It opened in 2019?
I don't blame him for falling asleep at his age
Well sportsball is BORING if you aren't a degenerate gambler and have a lot of money on the game.
This was over the only loss the New York Knicks have had so far in a best-of-seven finals format with the San Antonio Spurs to. Are they going to burn the city down if their team gets totally defeated?
I personally say it depends on which sportsball bu that's just imo
You’re arguing with a transgender Brit just FYI.
The boomers spent decades romanticizing and mythologizing the activism of the 1960s & 70s, a lot of which included senseless violence and outright terrorism. Thanks to that, the US has to deal with a generation of kids who think that they can solve all of their problems with protests and strikes, or riots.
Alaska is the state you move to when you don't want to be found.
The World Cup is a colossal clusterfuck that should be cancelled.
TSA is already present at Grand Central Station in DC. They've "gently" already asserted their jurisdiction on the train network -- technically speaking, they hold the authority to conduct their "standard-procedure" security screenings at any Amtrak passenger train station or stop, at their discretion, without warning or notice to the station operators. 49 CFR Part 1582 gives them regulatory and oversight authority. They just haven't flexed on it much (probably knowing how unimportant most people think passenger rail is; we all know those faggots care about nothing but power and authority, and flexing over something most people don't care about isn't enough of an ego-stroke to justify it).
American culture is centered around...
