High Speed Rail To WDW Approved

[doconeill]

Many of the current tracks have too many bends/curves to employ higher speed trains, additionally, there are too many stops on the main lines. IMO there should be two lines, a high speed for between major metropolitians and key locations and secondary trains that transport individuals between majors for connections.

This is why the Acela (and the proposed-but-mostly-dead JetTrain) were developed, to apply tilting technology and allow for maintain speeds while making the turns without teaching passengers about physics. But there are still too many places where that can't even be done. At one point - don't know if it is still true - CT refused to upgrade or allow to be upgraded the tracks/catenary in some areas, preventing the Acela from reaching speeds it otherwise should have been able to reach in the area.

People want new, new features, new technology, the cars that are currently employed do not offer the same level of comforts as modern trains in Europe and Asia, they also do not offer the same ride comfort.

One of the biggest problems is that even though there are existing train designs that would work over in Europe, they don't meet FRA regulations for passenger traffic over shared passenger/freight lines, which is a great majority of the intercity lines, so you can't just take off-the-shelf trainsets from Europe and use them. They must be designed from scratch.

 

[bgohre]

Boy and girls, the word for today is:

Boondoggle

 

[ConcKahuna]

Boy and girls, the word for today is:

Boondoggle

Sounds like the FL highway construction in general!

 

[TisBit]

I personally just like how everyone has an idea of how to fix problems in the US with ideas from other areas that just don't convert over easily. I am sure that the rise of automobiles in EVERY country isn't telling .

Mass transit has its place, but a mass transit line from an airport to a tourist destination to a major city (most likely to support the cruise industry more than anything else) is just silly. As pointed out earlier, what local is going to pay for parking at the airport just to ride the train somewhere. When the end comes, the cost of train tickets will rival the cost of a rental car and who wouldn't rather have their own transportation than rely on taxi's, etc.

Why did Disney put in Magic Express vs the old mears pay as you go system, cause by the time a family of four paid for mears, they could have just about gotten a car....which enabled them to leave disney.

If you are going to build a train line for all the people, sure have it Orlando to Tampa, even stop at Disney, but end it in Orlando with sufficient (read cheap) parking and let locals use it too. The airport can run a shuttle to it for the tourists......but the foregone conclusion is that locals won't use it (hence they rely on the tourists only).

 

[rwdavis2]

This is another hoorible waste of money by the Federal government. It will never pay for itself. Trains only make sense in high density areas (Northeast USA) or where many feeder lines feed into longhaul lines, much like the spoke and hub system of airlines.
BD

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

I'm not quite sure what the point of a line from OIA to Ybor City is unless there will be some type of connector to the airport and Busch Gardens or the beach.

A conventional rail from Atlanta to Miami through either Tampa or Orlando would be better. There are a bunch of tourists sitting in Atlanta for whom the cheapest course is to drive to any destination in Florida because for some reason flying costs the same as or more than flying into Florida from the Northeast. Said train would grow south georgia and north florida. Run it through Gainesville and you'd have a bunch of gator fans riding it regularly.

 

[scot@dvcstore]

The high speed rail should be a great option for Floridians looking to avoid I-4 and visit Disney World. Can't wait.