Comments by "John Peric" (@johnperic6860) on "Potential plans underway for high-speed trains across the U.S." video.

  1.  @tonyburzio4107  Last year commercial passenger plane crashes killed 200 people, what's your point? Accidents are bound to happen; we live in an imperfect world. Trains are the second safest form of transport behind planes.
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  2.  @pauld.b7129  You can't fly a train into two skyscrapers. Most rail stations have minimal security because there's very little harm one can do with a train.
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  3. If we can build the Defense Highway system, we can build a national rail system. And America had nation-wide passenger rail in the 1930s, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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  4. The U.S. had more passenger rail in the 1930s than any other country today. In 1930, the U.S. had 260,000 miles of passenger rail (the moon is 280,000 miles away for comparison), and every town with over 1000 people had a station with regular service. Trollies were generally intracity services, though, yes, even the trolley system of meager cities like Boise rivaled that of some of the modern public transport systems today.
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  5. Brightline is as low as 15 dollars per ticket from Miami to Boca Raton and 75 dollars per ticket from Miami to Orlando.
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  6.  @annabellelee4535  Yes, because it gets to 120F everywhere in the U.S., every day of the year, regardless of the season.
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  7.  @hankhill6469  Yes, our country already pays some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet we have nothing to show for it. If we could build the interstate, we can rebuild the rail network we destroyed. What's your point?
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  8.  @Anomize23  Brightline is being managed by a Japanese company already.
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  9. As much as I want this to become a reality, I don't see how it can work in sprawled, un-walkable cities. For High-speed rail to be practical, it must be easy for people to get to a train station without a car. This means that the train station must be an easy walk from residential areas or that there must be readily available public transport between the train station and residential areas. So long as cities are sprawled, walkability and public transport will be hard or impossible to attain, which means that getting to and from train stations can only be done reliably via car. This is the only flaw I see in high-speed rail transport in America, and until our sprawl and intracity public transport is fixed, I don't see how high-speed rail can become functional.
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  10.  @BlueRusso  125 mph is considered highspeed.
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