Re: History of the new Bypass line in Tacoma?
Author: ex-BN
Date: 12-22-2017 - 20:50
BN Oly Wrote:
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> BOB R Wrote:
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> > I think you're too myopic about the ten minutes.
>
> > The trains serve Olympia (Lacey), Centralia,
> > Longview and Vancouver. Saving ten minutes
> from
> > Tacoma to any of the intermediate points is
> > relatively large. Time savings and schedule
> > reliability more than make up for the
> relatively
> > small cost of this project. You also have to
> > consider the demonstration effect of a driver
> > inching along I-5 seeing the Cascade scoot by
> will
> > attract many to "try the train".
>
> The visual of the train flying past certainly
> would have been enticing... unfortunately now most
> of the general public will only associate it with
> the train flying off the track due to the wreck.
Yet the 43,000 (US) deaths on highways per year don't deter many drivers from the road.