Connoisseur
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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Connoisseur
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Mass transit systems that are completely and totally broken? It's cheaper and damn near as fast to drive (sanely) than the mass transit systems, even in Europe. And if you drive like your pants are on fire, it's faster, too.
That's why I mentioned that the government should invest more money upgrading and building new infrastructure. I'm not claiming that this system is perfect, but with technologies like Maglev and other high speed train services, it would def be faster than a car commute into the city and much cleaner than having thousands of people drive in with their SUV's or sedans. As for reliability, I'm not aware of any of the newer technologies having terrible maintenance issues.
And I don't drive if my pants are on fire. I take them off first then go driving in my underwear... mmm.
A train may well be faster than a car for a commute into the city - but people don't live within a 1-mile corridor that they could easily plop a train line down the middle of, do they? And then all work within the same radius of one particular spot where they could build a train station. Trains are GREAT if you have a TON of people going from one place to another (i.e. between cities), but NOT for short range commutes.
Dude. They have that now. It's called Penn Station. Doesn't work half that bad for something built like crap. It shuttles people from everywhere in Jersey to NY every day. We're talking from suburbia to the city. I say with a little better planning and some high speed trains, we could use the existing infrastrucure to build a much more efficient rail system than the one we have now. I have a 1 1/2 hour commute to work everyday from Jersey to NYC. I can easily see that commute cut down by a half if we reduce delays and increase train speeds.