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Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo... by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:03PM (#33165041)
Most of the places in the US where passenger rail would have the highest utility are the same places where there isn't a lot of space. That being said, it's still possible to make happen with high enough density (e.g. the Northeast megalopolis, which has usable, if expensive, passenger rail).
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Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo... by ghaff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:49PM (#33165629)
>usable, if expensive, passenger rail

Part of it is that the Northeast Corridor has to pay for basically the entire rest of the country where Amtrak almost universally loses money.

The other is that Acela specifically is priced to be more or less just competitive with air on the BOS-NYC and NYC-DC legs. (Acela doesn't really work for the most part to travel the entire length of the corridor.)

I almost never take Acela if I'm paying myself because the electrification work done for Acela made the regular regional train only about an hour slower for the BOS-NYC leg. (They used to have to switch engines in New Haven.)

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