Comments on: Gas prices, mass transit ridership up nationwide

By: Paris - transport | Worlds Biggest Cities

Paris - transport | Worlds Biggest Cities — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:47:12 +0000

[...] Gas prices, mass transit ridership up nationwide [...]

By: herenthere

herenthere — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:01:36 +0000

Definitely agree. Read an article in WIRED (I think) some time ago which talked about how some US Senator/Representative once proposed an underground high-speed rail under the Northeast Corridor. However, it was never built b/c it was too expensive back in the day; something about constructing worker-escaper shafts every mile or so in pre-TBM days…

By: Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:41:39 +0000

How does one reconcile the simultaneous thoughts that:

A) $3.50 / gal is too high a price for gas.

B) $3.50 / gal is not high enough, so therefore we need new taxes.

By: TC

TC — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:18:29 +0000

Where did you get your photo of high gas prices from? $3.599 would be a steal, if it’s in NYC…just filled up yesterday in Brooklyn for $3.879 per gallon. (and yes, as soon as I move downtown, I’m ditching my car – I never could stand the hidden hassles of having one in NYC anyway.)

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:12:21 +0000

Secret Conductor, add to that that there are plenty of short and medium distances between cities that are ideal for high speed rail . . . and we have airports that are choked with traffic.

We have funnelled billions into airport and road infrastructure in recent decades that would have been better served (or at least, should have been matched) by spending on high speed rail.

Acela is a good start, but the route needs to be fixed up for a faster, straighter ride. The Boston-NY-Philly-DC corridor should be train as first resort territory.

I did a post last year with links to an interesting national high sped rail proposal:
http://firstandcourt.blogspot......-rail.html

Nice work Ben.

By: The Secret Conductor

The Secret Conductor — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:14:46 +0000

Oh and guess what landed on the front page of Digg (originally on the FT) U.S. infrastructure: The Pot-Holed Highway To Hell

By: The Secret Conductor

The Secret Conductor — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:52:21 +0000

I can’t imagine the US having a high speed rail to anywhere. the USA only spends money on transportation when it looks like it is a inch from shutting down.

Roads, airports, trains, planes, buses, bridges and tunnels (don’t forget ferry’s!!!) get hacked. Its almost like we are all just accustom to this stuff just being there, we don’t realize that this stuff at one time didn’t exist.

Railroads built this country and planes made us sort of lazy with our transit network. Now that planes take FOREVER to get anywhere in a short distance, maybe trains will get an uplift.