![]() Houston-College Station-Dallas-Fort Worth.Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach-Orlando-Tampa.Philadelphia-Harrisburg-Pittsburgh-Youngstown-Cleveland-Toledo.Chicago-Gary-Lafayette-Indianapolis-Cincinnati.Minneapolis-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago-Champaign-Springfield-St.Las Vegas-Victorville-Palmdale-Burbank-Los Angeles.San Francisco-San Jose-Gilroy-Fresno-Bakersfield-Palmdale-Burbank-Los Angeles-Anaheim.Each of these corridors has equal or larger population per mile than the successful TGV Lille-Paris-Lyon-Valence-Marseilles corridor: That is a false and misleading criticism because HSR is designed for population-dense corridors, not regions. Critics have often said that American regions aren’t as population dense as those in Europe. Outside the Northeast Corridor, America doesn’t have enough population density for HSRįalse and Misleading. That is how Amtrak justifies federal & state funding for more Northeast Corridor upgrades over 2020-25.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() Each time Amtrak Northeast Corridor speed, frequency and capacity increased, ridership increased. Upgrading Amtrak Northeast Corridor to 186 mph, more frequent High Speed Rail (HSR) is not cost-justifiableįalse, opinion misrepresented as fact. To substantially increase ridership, Amtrak plans 110-125 mph speed upgrades, more frequent trains and more passenger cabins for Keystone, Pacific Surfliner, Capital Corridor, Cascade, Hiawatha, Illinois and Michigan lines as funding permits.ģ. As proven by increasing ridership on Amtrak Northeast Corridor, Americans like traveling a few hundreds miles faster on trains that run every 30 minutes from 5am-8pm, followed by trains every 45-60 minutes from 8pm-12pm.Īs also proven by millions of annual riders on 110 mph Amtrak Keystone, 79-90 mph Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and 79 mph Amtrak Capital Corridor lines, significant numbers of Americans will ride conventional speed trains too, provided they offer 12-16 roundtrips per day. ![]() In total, Amtrak Acela and Northeast Regional trains in Washington-NYC-Boston corridor drew 12 million passengers in 2018 and ridership is climbing.įalse, opinion misrepresented as fact. Amtrak, with only 36 miles of 150 mph track, carried more riders between Boston and NYC than all airlines combined. Amtrak, with only 105 miles of 125-135 mph track, carried 3X more riders between Washington and NYC than all airlines combined. We don’t need HSR because Americans prefer regional flightsįalse, opinion misrepresented as fact. ![]()
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