Re: Fast Track to Nowhere (HSR in the USA)

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From: hancock4
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:25

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On Sep 15, 8:20 pm, Hatunen <hatu...@cox.net> wrote:

> But the price for such will be discouraging.

Not necessarily.  It depends on the market being served, both in terms
of alternative travel modes and hotel/motel accomodations.  In some
markets hotels are relatively cheap, in others rather expensive even
for a basic room.

Many business travelers are avoiding the horrors of commercial service
and going to private jets.  The problem is that there's no spare
capacity at major airports to support these jets.  Taxpayers are not
gonna be too thrilled to support airports (like Teterboro in NJ which
is controversial) that support mostly elite business traffic.  The
costs of operating a private jetport aren't cheap, especially in the
day of high land values.  Many private airports have been turned into
malls and developments due to high land value.

The bottom line is that such private elite jet service will become
very expensive due to scarcity of appropriate airports.  If a business
person still has a two hour ground trip from the airport to origin or
destination or worse both, that's extra time to the journey.  (Getting
to Teterboro from Manhattan is murder).

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Subject: Re: Fast Track to Nowhere (HSR in the USA)
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