Tempus Edax Rerum said:
muddybrazos said:
Why would I want to rail to Houston or Dallas then not have a car there? That will never make sense to me unless I was just there like a day or two to stay in one part of town. Even then I would rather just drive.
If you fly from Dallas to Houston, how exactly do you get around? I am confused.
I love high speed rail and think rail is great for a million reasons.
But it's just not that workable in the USA (especially not Texas)
We would have needed to have done it 70-80 years ago and have built up deep commuter lines like in the UK or Germany.
And we would have needed Henry Ford to have never come along.
Texans just don't have the population density or the non-car culture to make it work
[It's interesting to note that Texas' population density is much lower, though, as the UK fits 65 million people into 2.5 less space than Texas' 29 million. Similarly, Texas is bigger than Spain, Iraq, and Japan, though France is fairly comparable in size.]
[Nearly one-third of British households have no car, compared to only 8% percent of American households. In contrast, almost 60% of the US sample households have two or more cars.]