How Two Billionaires Are Destroying High Speed Rail In America

[DetlefK]

4. The scenario you describe has a particular disadvantage:

In Europe, bullet-trains go from city-center to city-center, at top-speeds of 200kph. Stops inbetween only at major cities.

You are proposing a system where the train stops every 2 miles or so in the outskirts. That would drastically increase travel-time. (Europe has 3 kinds of trains: Bullet-trains for long-range travel between major cities. Regular trains for long-range travel between towns. Short-range trains (routes up to ~50 miles) that stop at every tiny village along the way.)

Example: Munich city-center to Berlin city-center, 585km (363 miles)
by car: 5-7 hours (Autobahn)
by train: 6-6.5 hours (ICE bullet-train)
You don't get those travel-times by stopping at every town inbetween. Slowing down negates the advantages of the high top-speed.

For comparison (route-finding by Google Maps)
SF to LA 383 Miles
by car: 5 hours
by train: 8 hours




Also, are you suggesting railways parallel to highways?