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Kazakhstan to build 600-mile high speed rail line
Just waiting for all the high speed rail junkies to jump up and down screaming how Americans need high speed rail because everybody else has it. No problem. Move to a socialist run country lacking roads but heavily subsidizes high speed rail. Or, if everybody else jumps off a cliff, the high speed rail junkies would probably want to do the same because everybody is doing it. In the mean time, when private capital, without government interference, decides Americans need high speed rail, the time will be right for high speed rail.
Alright, now Kazakhstan is beating us in the high speed rail race. Embarrassing.
Look! There goes that Kazakh high speed train, speeding into the transportation future and leaving the US in the dust.
Mr Guse is an fa
Jeffery, If what you say about American Private Capitol building what this country needs when it needs it is true, then If you happen to live outside (by fifty yards) of a major city or power line; then you would still be reading by lantern and running a diesel generator to get the power to run your computer. It was the REA and the TVA that forced private capitol to supply rural america with electricity. Without federally funded highways the car you are driving would look more like something from the 1930’s than the 2013’s.
Either you were really were not paying attention in school, or you are an incarnate of the Robber Barons. Private capitol always puts the needs of private capitol first above all others.
Interesting that it is not standard gauge (1435 m) to enable potential direct link with China rather than Russia.
Is the USA loaning them the money to build have the railroad designed and buit by the French using money we borrowed from China. Worth pondering, eh???
I have to agree with you Mr. Brown. Our highways and air transport system are subsidized. Passenger rail should receive the same treatment. As far as I understand, the freight rails transport receives very little subsidies.
Does Jeffery Guse from Illinois EVER have anything sensible to say? (To the Ed. You print his rants, how’s about equal time?)
Once again, Mr. Guse twists the trutrh in order to make his point. He mentions a ‘country lacking roads but heavily subdizes (sic) high speed rail’. And where does Mr. Guse think our highway system funds come from, the ‘Freeway Fairy’???
Jeffery Guse, SHUT UP!!! Why do you bother to post your drivel? You must get off on your rants and getting sensible people POed at you.
Why doesnt someone use SimCity to economically model this debate? Run some scenarios, adjust the assumptions, publish the findings. They run sports predictions through the video games all the time running thousands of trials creating highly accurate predictions.
Everywhere but the USA, when are we going to get on the ball
bakelly@optilink.us
As an oldie (79), Amtrak passenger (multiple Denver to Boston roundtrips via Chicago ILLINOIS and Lakeshore Limited ), NARP member, ColoRail member & railfan, I somewhat agree with Mr. Guse, at least his last sentence, that until some Public/Private Projects (PPPs) do something about passenger rail, nothing will happen except short segments like the Denver Union Station to Denver International Airport (DIA) commuter rail line (about 24 miles), already 1/2 complete.
So, in Kazakhstan they can build HSR and Bridges. What about us?
I laid out the HSR line for the Cascadia High Speed Rail – we should do this!
So, in Kazakhstan they can build HSR and Bridges. What about us?
I laid out the HSR line for the Cascadia High Speed Rail – we should do this!