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iBoaterer[_3_]

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:19:26 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article , says...

On 9/3/13 11:30 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:57:25 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

No, it's mostly a stigma, people think elevated trains, they think
noise, they think unsafe, etc. Add to that that for some reason beyond
me, there are a LOT of people in the U.S. who just fear and loathe any
new technology.

Elevated trains ARE noisier and if they derail, over a major road,
they are a lot more dangerous.
We are not talking about the Lake Street El here. You want that train
going 150 MPH or more.

BTW you keep saying "innovation" and "new technology" but this is 200
year old technology and every plan I have heard involves buying
existing technology from Europe or Japan. Were is the innovation?

Bringing high speed trains over from Europe would be new technology for
this country, because we have no capability anymore for passenger rail
innovation. We'd have to reverse engineer what they are doing across the
big pond.

If they change the octane of gasoline and it makes cars go faster is that new technology or
an improvement on an existing technology. Fixed track trains are 200 years old and they only
thing that has changed is how the locomotive is powered.

Electric trains running off a catenary is over 100 years old

Oh, boy, here we go, everything is the same as it was 200 years
ago......