I just can't get excited about High Speed Rail in the US.

[glowing]

1. So, there's just no reason to even try... Keep all those individual cars trudging

across America and sitting in traffic wasting time and energy.

We have the luxury of space (for the most part--except in large metropolitan areas like NYC and they have mass transit), so the suburban sprawl and very unsmart planning occurred. Now, with people living 30 mins or more from the hub and having to commute, we have lots of grid-lock and rising gas prices.

From an environmental stand-point, it makes a lot of sense to invest in HSR. The cost estimated for the train from tampa to orlando, walk on pass, was to be $30.00 (easily the cost of gas)... of course regular commuting pay pass would be much cheaper. The I-4 corridor would have been vastly eased. Companies from around the world were excited for a Southern city area that would be the feel size of Los Angelos, but the developing space and prices that would be affordable for newer "solar investment" companies, to just name one of the industries who would take advantage of a mass transit commuting train. In the meantime, the surrounding communities would have to come up with actual in-town transit that works to get people to the HSR in a practical manner.

Seeing that the transit people who run our bus seem to make it to their bus stop on time, I can also imagine that the engineers running these trains could also do their jobs as well... Individual people who work, are normally pretty decent at being capable... Its not as if congressional folks would be driving the train and they would probably only take it on its maiden voyage at the ribbon cutting ceremony, and for the rest of their lives use private jets to move around... the one's most of us cannot afford.