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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Oct 6 2004, 09:12 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Oct 6 2004, 09:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-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. [/b][/quote]
It took almost 20 hours to drive 550 miles all on interstates with 70mph speed limits! No real accidents or construction to slow us down, just congestion. We chose to drive for the experience, and we wanted to have our car as we were going out to martha's vineyard as well, but never again will I drive that stretch! The plus side of getting around around here is that flights are very reasonable for flying anywhere up and down the atlantic coast, pretty much around $150 or so to anywhere.