Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Colorado's Forgotten Hover Train" video.

  1. The cost-efficiency of freight transport by ship or barge has less to do with friction (or lack thereof) than sheer economy of scale.
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  2. That depends on where you are and where you want to go. For example, if I'm in Northern Virginia and I want to go to Philadelphia, I'd rather drive to a nearby Metro station and park my car all day for a few bucks, take the Metro to Union Station, take the Acela to 30th Street Station, then jump on the subway to wherever I'm going in downtown Philadelphia. I can read or nap instead of grinding my teeth in I-95's continuous traffic jam for hours, then paying more to park at my destination than I did to park in NoVa plus the four subway trips. I've actually done that trip by both train (Metroliner, back in the day) and by car at various times and the train was - by far - easier, faster, and less stressful.
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  3. Really? NO other nation has built a national system of limited access expressways? Perhaps, if they had, they might have called them "Autobahns" or "Motorways" or something like that. FFS, pal, pick up a book!
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  4.  @gungriffen  Europe covers approximately 3,930,000 square miles. Texas covers approximately 268,800 square miles. Your geography and math skills are just as strong as your knowledge of history. Your original assertion was that "no other nation" had built a limited access expressway network. When I pointed out that was not correct, you moved the goalposts and STILL managed to be wrong.
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