Comments by "" (@jasonreed7522) on "Why do people commute by airplane?" video.

  1. Thats cool, 2 things i always wondered about for highspeed rail (or maglevs, or generally any fast train) is if Amtrak could build them along existing highway right of ways (its already reserved land for noisy transit with a wide footprint, i figure highway interchages pose the bigest obstacle for this idea, but it should be easier than having to get through residential NIMBYs) And 2, can trains have premium services to have your car loaded on as cargo at the back to solve the last mile problem, admittedly more usefull for rural destinations where you get dropped off in car dependent small town america. (The place cars actually make sense, not NYC) For reference bibwas checking out Amtrak's website to see if i could take the train home for Christmas (laughably bad at 20hrs to have the track stop 3hrs from my hometown, i can drive it in 6-7hrs, and going to destinations that have stops a car is twice as fast and doesn't end in the middle of a car dependent city), anyway I found 1 line they operate between DC and Orlando that advertises a take your car with you service to bypass I-91 in comfort which sounds so much better, especially if it makes the same time or better. Anyway i wonder what your end result was, i know college papers can end in unexpected results first hand. (I did a paper on how to handle nuclear waste, turns out the cheapest and best option is to find a filled in subduction trench and bury it 3km deep in clay in land bound for the mantle and in the time it takes to surface as lava its already decayed to nothing. Hardest part is convincing Seattle to let you put it in the cascadia subduction zone clay filled trench)
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  2. Another factor for married people is the high probably that they have kids, and they may decide it's better for their children to be stable and stay in 1 school with the same friends in the city their spuce has a job and then just super commute to their high paying job. Hopefully most office workers are able to telecommuting more in the future. I find working in an office to be most productive, but having the option to work from home is nice, especially in the north east where winter likes to make driving extra risky and not worth it. I grew up in upstate NY so i can handle snow, but CT doesn't like to plow it out of the road and off the shoulder making the road narrow as everyone insists on speeding in potentially icy conditions. As for why someone would intentionally commute by plane and need to leave at 5am and get back at 9pm i have no idea, thats 9hrs spent home, that isn't a life, you can't even sleep 8hrs and take care of life tasks unless you use the flight for sleep, but that just sounds peak dystopia.
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