Re: and 25 yrs from now...
Author: mook
Date: 12-29-2012 - 20:01
How do you get to/from HSR? Same way you get to/from current Amtrak: local transit, dedicated buses for some longer runs, and driving. How do you get to the airport? Chances are, you drive because there is no useful transit except maybe (BIG MAYBE) SFO with BART. Unless you consider SuperShuttle transit (I don't - more like a big taxi with fares to match). Access to HSR or any other trunk-line transportation system isn't the issue if properly thought out. Making it worth using for enough people to at least cover a decent chunk of the cost is the issue, given a reasonable range of alternatives. One very big assumption, of course, is that by the time any more than a tiny part of HSR is operating fuel and other issues will drive the cost of the alternatives up to where HSR is competitive.