High speed rail is optimal for places that aren’t worth flying between because they’re so close, but take a couple of hours to drive to. To me, Portland to Seattle sounds like a perfect fit. Paying for it is an entirely different matter.
The car makers didn't want this so we have to buy their cars. They bought tons of trains decades ago. It is a smart way to travel, but not profitable for car makers.
Cause the distance from Seattle -> Eugene is about the distance from North SF to South LA. You’re asking a much smaller state to do twice the track a mega-giant California can’t even do
Thats a good idea. Given that Cascadia HSR will eventiually reach Eugine, and California HSR will reach Sacramento, you can bridge the gap to go through Medford and Redding and run sleeper trains 8-10 times a day between Seattle and LA. The total trip time should be around 13-14 hours given conventional speeds between Eugine and Sacramento. Perfect for sleepers. It will compete with air travel not in speed but in comfort.
I think maybe it’s time to ban non electric vehicles from the road, and limit the amount of EVs that can exist. I thing tearing up old highway systems and roads for bike lanes, trams, and trains would be good.
@@darthmaul216 If you really want to get technical, the relative sea level in the Washington/Oregon region is actually dropping. This is due to geologic activity in the area causing the land to rise. The change is so slow though, that in practical terms it is nonexistent. The relative sea level could, however, change instantly and dramatically with the next subduction zone slip.
we need more briges aroun settle conecting to the islas for ast movility ?? we need a llot of projects ,, money exist here in state for do mega project ,wiht vision of future okay thanks...
More reason to get the train. Road maintenance isn’t sustainable & will never be.. maybe if they raise property taxes or start doing an income tax.. but F that. MONORAIL, MONORAIL, MONORAIL!
They will definitely take 20-50 years to plann then 20-50 years to build with 40 different companies over budget by 3 trillion dollars then give up after they all skimmed all the funds off the project .
Trash hole to Trash hole. It's for moving the homeless Crackheads. Not working people in the PNW. The state is more worried about the none working people in our state than they are the working. Maybe lower taxes on car tabs and not inact the new mileage tax on electric vehicles. 🤔
With all the other issues we have in Washington, government supported homelessness, rising crime rates, why are we waisting money on this money pit. Sound Transit is already hemorrhaging money with the Seattle fast rail system do we really want them to start construction on another one?
@@darthmaul216 it's not even close to true not everybody can take light rail to work and not everybody lives close to a light rail line. This is a burden on people who don't live in the Seattle Puget sound area but are stuck paying for it even though they'll never use it. It's already 52 billion dollars over budget.
Good lucks for that ambition. Amtrak tends to ditch its trains to show how its train's engineers conduct trains on the iron roads yearly. Highspeed trains could send the riders to heaven much faster.
Hey, this works in Japan but needs to be limited to WORKING PEOPLE ONLY. Otherwise, typical crime occurs and we don't need that like on typical public transportation
