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Originally posted by nfotiu@Oct 6 2004, 02:54 PM
There are environmental and safety benefits as well. As well as money saved on expanding roads. That should all be considered as well.
I can't believe there is not high speed rail around where I live in the central/north east US. The roads are awful. Highways can't be considered highways around here anymore. I drove from Virginia to Boston in the summer and averaged less than 30 mph for the whole trip!!! People who haven't driven on highways around here would be shocked to see how traffic on highways just congests to a standstill for hundreds of miles. North America seems so far behind Europe and Japan in this regard.
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30mph on the highway? How long did it take you to get to Boston, a week?
There was much swearing around here this summer when you had to slow to a crawl for 20 minutes because of road maintenance on the highway, but then it was back up to 80mph for the rest of the trip. But then we have 2.5 million people in Alberta and you probably drove past a hundred million people on that trip.