Amtrak

[Elizah Huge]

I am hopeful that a future president will run with a great transportation project like hyper tunnels or whatever and pass more infrastructure bills. No one wants more taxes but its something that USA needs to spend money on. Stop wasting so much money on cars and prioritizing them over everything else in a city. Cars shouldn't even really be in downtowns.

Also I hope all companies in the USA and preferably the world start paying a min tax of 10-15%. We should not let companies like Google get away with paying nothing while making giant profits.

This just makes too much sense.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Their trains go 200-300mph? That seems like hyperbole.

I cant tell you how nice it is to walk out of my house and go to the subway 1 block away and take it three stops to the train station. Then hop on a nice train with wifi, plenty of room, plugs for phones, a small restaurant inside the train with 1 usd beers, and a bunch of other nice amenities. Then show up at a vacation place on the ocean in 4 hours (distance of like SLC to LA or even further on the faster trains) It makes traveling so much less stressful to not go to the airport. Boarding is just walking on the platform and usually takes less than 10 min and the train is leaving. No ticket in hand just tap your ID as you walk on. Oh and it costs like maybe $50-100 in total for the roundtrip. $400 gets me 1st class access with a seat I can lay down in over the top service, free food and drink, and so on.

 

[LogGrad98]

Their trains go 200-300mph? That seems like hyperbole.

There are trains in Europe that go 200 mph or so. The fastest I rode on showed you the current speed and the route on a big screen. It was fun to watch it climb to 170 mph. Then it was slowing down as we were approaching the destination. Better than flying for some of these stretches for sure. Even at the slower speeds of 130 to 150 it was pretty great.

 

[Ron Mexico]

There are trains in Europe that go 200 mph or so. The fastest I rode on showed you the current speed and the route on a big screen. It was fun to watch it climb to 170 mph. Then it was slowing down as we were approaching the destination. Better than flying for some of these stretches for sure. Even at the slower speeds of 130 to 150 it was pretty great.

The crazy thing is when you are standing on the platform and a train comes by that isnt stopping at your station at full speed. Its pretty intense to see a huge train fly by you 10 feet away at 200 or whatever MPH. It actually scares the **** out of me every time. I think the fastest train that is active to public is or maybe was (new trains are all the time) the Shanghai train from the airport to downtown. It gets up to speed so fast I think its around 270 mph. It gets you downtown in like 7 minutes, I think the train is capable of going much faster if it had a further distance to travel, kind of the same tech as hyperloops. I think they are planning a Shanghai to Beijing train that will take 2.5 hours which is about 620 miles. China cities are pretty well planned. The downside is that the Airports are way outside of downtown usually. I got spoiled in SLC with the airport like 10-15 min from downtown. Most airports are 1-1.5 hours car ride even with relatively low traffic.