A Quote by Shervin Pishevar
There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.
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Mr. Xi is all-in on robotics, aerospace, high-speed rail, new-energy vehicles and advanced medical products.
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.
China has gotten high-speed rail right, where the United States has not.
International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.
When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.
If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.
When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.
I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City. I just remember being up there in the balcony, and it was myself up front and there was a choir behind me. In front of me was this rail, like this cement rail, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" Because I was a kid then, and I'm like, "We're kinda high ... I hope I don't flip over," because I'm very clumsy.
Nothing is clear cut in the debate surrounding high-speed rail, but from its successes elsewhere we can be confident that it pays a great dividend to the society it serves.
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