http://inhabitat.com/nyc/amtraks-proposes-high-speed-rail-to-take-riders-from-ny-to-philly-in-37-minutes/ Green Design and Innovation in New York City Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://inhabitat.com/nyc/amtraks-proposes-high-speed-rail-to-take-riders-from-ny-to-philly-in-37-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-7683 rpvitiello Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:56:19 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/nyc/?p=38316#comment-7683 lazyreader you do realize the northeast corridor is the only stretch of Amtrak that turns a profit. If amtrak failed, there were emergency plans to keep the northeast corridor in operation, since shutting it down would have a MASSIVE impact on business in that region. Moving all those trips onto plains or busses would be disastrous. I-95 which is the highway route for that region is already running at 200% capacity. If you took all train traffic and dumped it onto that roadway with busses you would literally cripple that region. expanding that roadway from DC to boston would cost 10X as much as high speed rail. You would have to build a double decker highway from DC to Boston since there is no room to buy a superhighway in one of the most densely populated places in the world. lazyreader you do realize the northeast corridor is the only stretch of Amtrak that turns a profit. If amtrak failed, there were emergency plans to keep the northeast corridor in operation, since shutting it down would have a MASSIVE impact on business in that region. Moving all those trips onto plains or busses would be disastrous. I-95 which is the highway route for that region is already running at 200% capacity. If you took all train traffic and dumped it onto that roadway with busses you would literally cripple that region. expanding that roadway from DC to boston would cost 10X as much as high speed rail. You would have to build a double decker highway from DC to Boston since there is no room to buy a superhighway in one of the most densely populated places in the world.

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