higher-speed
Subtle admission that Acela and Brightline West goals aren't considered "high-speed"
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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cocoa to orlando would be if it actually got built and opened at 125mph. Barely anyhow. 79mph top speed with good branding? Not a chance in hell. Makes me mad that some flashy "high speed" branding and a healthy dose of ideology was all it took to get people slobbering over a passenger train in the US
acela is high speed but by god does it need to run on alignments that don't slow it down so much. it's running at like intercity 125 speeds (not top speeds but almost comparable average speeds over a route), aka shit the UK did in the 70s. nowadays their east coast main line runs at over 110 mph average and we're still at 70)
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Acela is a disgrace to HSR
Read the article, nothing subtle about it.
I read the article, but giving the reader the impression from the title that 5 high-speed rail projects are taking shape in the US, then revealing in the article content itself that it's only 3, is a little misleading.
Don't look up how many people the Florida Brightline has killed
Pretty much all of these are not the fault of the train. I'm sure there are some things they could do to make the tracks safer, but at the end of the day this is still Florida, which is unfortunately populated by Floridians.
when a car gets hit by a train, it's the car's fault