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Old 08-13-2013, 07:15 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by botsapper View Post
I see it as a parallel engineering project to ridicule the high speed rail project in California. It will serve to illustrate the comparative ab$urdity of the California high-speed rail costs.
Don't know about that, but it's all a different issue. The problem is that the faster you make the station-to-station part of the trip, the more your total travel time is dominated by getting to & from the stations, boarding, security, etc. Even if you could make the actual trip at the speed of light, it's still likely to take several hours for the door-to-door journey.
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