Vegas-California high-speed rail project gets $3B

[Ayesha Erotica 1,959]

2 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Generally speaking, the best rail network is that of Banat province (around Timișoara - the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and the worst in Dobruja (the legacy of the Ottoman Empire).

I find this interesting because it shows us how paths once taken historically have long-term consequences “for eternity”. In Poland, the former German areas are considered to be the most developed, while the Old Polish areas lag behind. This is a map of Poland's rail system in 1953, eastern Poland is not well served here:

I think that in America the federal system prevents cross-state solutions from being found because each state first thinks about a connection in its own state. If two metropolitan areas are to be connected and there is a third transit state in the way, then the transit state would also like to have its share in the connection (halts in betweens) and possibly reroute it so that one of their cities is connected, but this would extend the route between the two metropolitan areas, and it gets more complicated the more states are involved - and they don't want that, and then the projects fizzle out. I could imagine that massive snowfalls that occur around Montréal are a reason why HST networks to New York City are non-existent, as they are an obstacle.

Timisoara and the rest have potential, indeed! Timisoara should actually be better connected to the route network of Serbia and Hungary, but since these countries do not think across borders, Timisoara kinda remains peripheral. I don't know exactly how it is connected, but it would have the potential to be connected to Vienna via its neighbor countries.

Well, Moldova must pay attention, it might wake up one day and found out it has become the westernmost stop at the Trans-Siberian railway

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But can they make sure it will be free from dangerous used needles tho? 

[LateToCult 42,098]

1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

But can they make sure it will be free from dangerous used needles tho? 

Girl, the only bums that’ll be on those trains will be Katy Kats on their way to Playland. 

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12 hours ago, LoliLux said:

I find this interesting because it shows us how paths once taken historically have long-term consequences “for eternity”. In Poland, the former German areas are considered to be the most developed, while the Old Polish areas lag behind. This is a map of Poland's rail system in 1953, eastern Poland is not well served here:

I think that in America the federal system prevents cross-state solutions from being found because each state first thinks about a connection in its own state. If two metropolitan areas are to be connected and there is a third transit state in the way, then the transit state would also like to have its share in the connection (halts in betweens) and possibly reroute it so that one of their cities is connected, but this would extend the route between the two metropolitan areas, and it gets more complicated the more states are involved - and they don't want that, and then the projects fizzle out. I could imagine that massive snowfalls that occur around Montréal are a reason why HST networks to New York City are non-existent, as they are an obstacle.

Timisoara and the rest have potential, indeed! Timisoara should actually be better connected to the route network of Serbia and Hungary, but since these countries do not think across borders, Timisoara kinda remains peripheral. I don't know exactly how it is connected, but it would have the potential to be connected to Vienna via its neighbor countries.

Well, Moldova must pay attention, it might wake up one day and found out it has become the westernmost stop at the Trans-Siberian railway

You can go with the train from Romania to Hungary relatively easy (in fact Budapest is kind of a feroviar hub- you need to get to Budapest if you want to further travel to, say, Vienna, Zagreb or Krakow. But it takes a long time, for instance if you want to travel to Krakow from Bucharest, you leave Bucharest at 9am and arrive at Krakow the next day at 4pm ). 

The networks of Romania used to be connected to that of NE Serbia via Vrsac, but the train was phased out in the last couple of years. Which is a shame because I believe South-Eastern European countries should be more interconnected.

The stated goal of Romania is to be included in Schengen and be more integrated with other EU countries, but Schengen is never going to happen so we should just reorient to regional cross-border organizations, such as Open Balkan (with Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia) and closer cooperation with Bulgaria and Greece. But Romanian politicians autistically hold on to Schengen as if that's viabile when it's evident other countries don't want us in (after so many years of EU membership, Romania is still not Schengen while people talk about bringing Ukraine into the EU - talk about false hope and lack of realism ).

BTW I had another question for you in the thread about VenezuelaxGuyana but the mods didn't approve it.

[Ayesha Erotica 1,959]

4 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

The stated goal of Romania is to be included in Schengen and be more integrated with other EU countries, but Schengen is never going to happen so we should just reorient to regional cross-border organizations, such as Open Balkan (with Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia).

 

BTW I had another question for you in the thread about VenezuelaxGuyana but the mods didn't approve it.

If I were Romania's president, I had tied the Yes of Romania to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO to Austria's Yes to RO and BUL Schengen membership. If Austria would continue blocking it, the White House would have summoned Austria's chancellor and pooped on him and then he would say yes to Romania getting into Schengen. Erdogan did that with Sweden and he was successfull because he is good at making deals, though I am not praising him because it is not OK how he is treating women & gays in his country. And Bulgaria could have done that, too, but it didn't... I thought something of the Ottoman empire's era mentality had rubbed off on it but.. no.

To your last part: The Mods installed a filter that does not allow heated debates about Middle East and anything that leads to it because they feel overcharged and overworked monitoring it, so your answer didn't pass through. One possibility is to put that question/answer simply without the Middle East part - then it will be like a normal post and then @LoliLux will rush either at Chinese high speed train speed or Moldova's ex-Soviet locomotive speed to answer it.

We shouldn't derail (*giggles*) this topic, however -anything not related about American trains shouldn't be written here and we should switch back to the other topics from now on.

There has been a feasibility study of the NY and Québec government to examine the possiblity of establishing high speed train routes between New York City and Albany to Montréal and Montréal to Boston.

"A significant component of the Study is the High-Speed Rail Pre-Feasibility Study, which is
assessing the concept of developing high-speed rail (HSR) service in the New York City –
Montreal corridor. Passenger train service is presently very limited in that corridor, with only one train per day in each direction that takes over 10 hours."

"Currently, travel from Boston to Montreal requires transferring to a second train in New Haven, Connecticut and to a bus for the final leg from St. Albans, Vermont, with a total travel time of over 12.5 hours."

https://www.dot.ny.gov/programs/i-87-multimodal-corridor-study/repository/finalhighspeedrailfeasibilitystudyreport05-18-04.pdf

By the way, I've just seen that this study is already 19 years old... And it still takes 10h by train according to Google.