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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:20:27 +0700
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:01:01 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:48:33 +0100, Rolf Mantel
><news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
>
>>> San Francisco or Oakland to LA is only an hour on commercial
>>> aircraft. The same to Las Vegas and only a half hour more to Arizona
>>> and only a half hour more than that to Denver. Trains simply do not
>>> work with the distances between major cities in the US. Too bad, I
>>> do like railroads.
>>
>>On the contrary, exactly those are the distances that work on high-speed 
>>trains.  "One hour on commercial aricraft" means a total travelling time 
>>of approx. three hours "city-center to city-center"; a "2:40 non-stop 
>>travel time" by train as planned on completion of phase 1 would kill the 
>>air market completely.
>
>	I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and
>passing through the secret state police. 

Don't forget the "9/11"  catastrophe here in the U.S.The bad guys were
cleared ,by security, to be  passengers on the airplanes.

> And when you reach your
>destination, it's usually at least 30 mins to the center of town. Two
>wasted hours.
>	I presume train passengers would not be subject to "homeland
>insecurity" groping. Unless one of the CEO's from the "air market"
>paid someone to plant a bomb. The usual "take me to Cuba" excuse would
>not work.
>	[]'s



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Cheers,

John B.