This train system would vastly improve travel times between all cities on the map. With current technology, top speeds of these "Bullet" trains is about 180 miles per hour. To put that number into prospective, a normal train from Albany to New York City is about 2.5 hours long. The trip is about 140 miles long. With the "Bullet" train, this trip would take 45 minutes, making New York City a very doable trip for Albany area people.
The "Bullet" train has endless economic, political and social opportunities, and technology will play a major part in those opportunities.
"Seven times as long as flying, costs twice as much!"
That's a pretty big project, but i can say that being someone from Boston originally, it is pretty difficult to get between Syracuse and Boston. I think the current train is something like 7-10 hours which is just not the way i want to spend that many hours. Also the population density in the north east is enough that i think a train system like this could be sustained.
ReplyDeleteI'm also from the Boston area and agree that a train like this would be awesome to commute around the Northeast.
ReplyDeleteWould this be a similar design to the bullet trains over in Japan, or do you have a different way for designing them? I like the idea of bringing the train West (as in from Japan), and starting off only in the Northeast is a good decision. The population density is heavy, and before you build the trains all over America, it'll be good to pilot them in just one area and see the response.
This will probably be a very expensive project, but a cool one nonetheless!
This is an interesting idea. I think there is potential here. A few things you might want to consider is cost, where you would get funding from. Also you should consider starting small then expanding it. If you try and start too big, the funding will be really hard to get, also it will take a long time to build and ay never be completed. However, if you start small and it works, then you will have evidence to get more funding and then you will be able to expand. Good job, keep up the hard work. This idea has potential.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great concept and I would love to learn more about how it actually works. Also, thinking from a national perspective, building a new rail road would be great for starting up jobs in our struggling economy (until the "bullet" system replaces our old one and all those people lose their jobs). But still, I would love to get to the city faster and would certainly use this if it was implemented.
ReplyDeleteI really like this idea, Being from Western New York (Buffalo) I find it really weird and ironic that I can go to places like Cleveland and Toronto faster than I can go to New York city. I also like you map with proposed routes, great to see that someone remembers to include Buffalo in things like this. Like a lot of the others said the Northeast is densely populated and this could really take off, if it is cheap enough. This could revolutionize the way in which people travel from larger areas to go to sporting events, making it easier for more people to go to games. This idea has real potential for rapid expansion physically and technologically. Great thinking
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