Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back

Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by rhino369 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:52PM (#12792027)

You don't have to wait 2 hours extra hours at air ports v. high speed rail. Not accounting for travel to the airport v travel to the train station, it's probably only like 30-45 minutes. You have to get to the airport 60 minutes before a domestic flight, but you have to get to amtrak 15 minutes before a trip.

Amtraks have a lot more fan fare than getting on a metro. They don't run that often and they sometimes fill up. It's much more like getting on a plane than a subway.

The time might get a little longer if you include time to get to the airport v. time to get to the station, but it's variable based on where particular people live.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:26PM (#12792296)

> Not accounting for travel to the airport v travel to the train station

That's probably +30-60 min though. An airport is outside a city; train stations usually are scattered within a city, with one in a very centre.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by GordonS on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:40PM (#12792404)

This, plus airport security too

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by ebalit on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:56PM (#12798173)

For the TGV, you need to be in the train 2 minutes before departure. Of course, you probably want to take a biffer margin of error. It's not "metro-like" but really close to commuter trains.

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