[ale] OT: Maglev funding?

[tom]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> I just checked at delta.com
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> They have 9 daily flights from Atlanta to Chattanooga.  That is the
> real competition for the HSGT.  Note that the HSGT line would be
> between the airports of the two cities.  (As well as other stops.  For
> me the proposed Galleria stop would be a bicycle ride away.)

Note that 9 flights per day get you air port to air port when the weather 
isn't utterly miserable. (I keep getting stuck in the wrong airport due to 
weather - and I rarely fly.) I don't want the airport, I want the business 
district and some family in residential locations. Plus, is air port to 
air port all that significantly faster than driving when check in, 
security, thumb twiddling, parking, etc get figured in? Cost should be 
about the same tho...

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> It is also supposed to stop in Town Center and Dalton which adds to
> the rider base.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I see how monorail helps a metro area but the original writer was
>> discussing longer distance trains. Atlanta to Chattanooga trains. It
>> sounds like Monorail does not make sense for this type of ride.
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>> My next question is does people movers that require large capital
>> expenditures make sense. The existing/sucessful mass transit systems
>> I've been on (NY, London, Washington DC) were built before the
>> automobile.
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>> Could you not have the same affect with buses that run on HOV or bus
>> only lanes today.
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>> Do you think a business class bus running between Atlanta and
>> Chattanooga would be successful.  If a bus market does not exist how
>> could you argue that a market exists for the more expensive trains.
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