Disney High-Speed Support May Boost Japan, China Trainmakers

[Dreamer Kevin]

Article from Bloomberg with the latest on the high-speed "bullet train" line proposed for Tampa-Orlando, which may include a station at WDW.

 

[wdwpins]

Many socialist countries have had high-speed rail for years.

I've been on the French TGV many times in its various forms--TGV-Atlantique, Eurostar, Thalys, first generation and duplex, and I have never grown tired of riding these wonders of technology that benefit the people whose taxes paid for the construction of these formidable transportation systems.

If you think that high-speed rail isn't for Florida (or for the rest of the USA for that matter), I invite you to watch the video below at youtube. While Tampa-Orlando may not be the best choice for initial construction (Miami-Orlando-Jacksonville is better), it's still a starting point for what I hope is a Florida-wide system of high-speed rail. As an added bonus, you don't have to take your shoes off in order to board one of these trains. <g>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2l7fNx4YHY

 

[Zippercat]

Many socialist countries have had high-speed rail for years.

I've been on the French TGV many times in its various forms--TGV-Atlantique, Eurostar, Thalys, first generation and duplex, and I have never grown tired of riding these wonders of technology that benefit the people whose taxes paid for the construction of these formidable transportation systems.

If you think that high-speed rail isn't for Florida (or for the rest of the USA for that matter), I invite you to watch the video below at youtube. While Tampa-Orlando may not be the best choice for initial construction (Miami-Orlando-Jacksonville is better), it's still a starting point for what I hope is a Florida-wide system of high-speed rail. As an added bonus, you don't have to take your shoes off in order to board one of these trains. <g>



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2l7fNx4YHY

If you think security measures for rail systems won't be needed in the future you might be spending too much time in Fantasy Land! Remember the train bombs in Spain? Poison gas attack in Japan?

 

[TheWeasel]

Those countries are soooo small and everything is compressed. People will never give up their cars and in the end we will have to save the DREAM of high speed lines by way of taxation. By the way, I thought car pool lanes were going to save us all?

 

[wdwpins]

Weasel, I used to live in South Jersey. How does a high-speed rail trip from Philly to Orlando in about 5 hours sound?

No one who flies is giving up his car. Why would someone who takes the train give up his car?

 

[TheWeasel]

It's a region high speed line that is mentioned, not a national rail line. And do you really think that it would travel from Philly to Orlando in 5 hours? No stops along the way? My point about giving up cars was in reference to region rails. People will never give up their freedom to come and go as they need. If it was economical it would exist, but just as everyone would like to see the monorail expanded, it's just not econimical. This country is to spread out.

 

[The Duck]

Many socialist countries have had high-speed rail for years.

Go push your political agenda somewhere else, these forums are supposed to be a happy place.

 

[Dreamer Kevin]

Many socialist countries have had high-speed rail for years.

Mr. Churchill's quote isn't a reference to public works projects, of course, a number of which were launched in the U.K. and elsewhere at his behest. In fact, his most well-known public/private partnership was of particular value to France!

 

[wdwpins]

Go push your political agenda somewhere else, these forums are supposed to be a happy place.

Doesn't this make you happy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2l7fNx4YHY

First I'm told that the distance between Tampa and Orlando is too short for high-speed rail. Then I'm told that the country is too spread out for high-speed rail. Which is it?

Stops between Philly and Orlando? Maybe, maybe not. Paris to Lille may have no stops at 187 mph or it may have 1 stop at Haute-Picardie. Depends.

France, a (socialist) country the size of our state of Texas, has had HSR since 1981. (By the way, socialism doesn't mean lack of innovention--Concorde, Ariane, Minitel, telecarte, anyone?) Personally, I think there is so much backlash from the flying public who refer to planes as "tube-shaped cattle cars" that they would welcome this form of travel. Sure, there are terrorist risks, but you can't fly a train into the side of a building, and they don't hold huge amounts of jet fuel, either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdDAKuWeNvk