Bill For the Planning a Financing of Mag/Lev Reaserch

[Platypus]

yes yes yes yes yes!

[Platypus]

You'd focus it on maybe 25 cities (more if profitable, later), for sure, but you'd need at least one transnational route for it to be profitable, becuse thats where it would make the difference.

Basically, you'd have three districts.

West

Seattle-Portland-Sacramento-San Francisco-Los Angeles-San Diego-Pheonix

Central

Los Angeles-Denver-St. Louis-Chicago-Cleveland-Philadelphia

East

Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore

With possible extensions/more stations:

West

Vancouver-Seattle-Portland-Sacramento-San Francisco-Los Angeles
-San Diego-Pheonix-Albuquerque-Denver

Central

Los Angeles-Las Vegas-Salt Lake City-Denver-Topeka-St. Louis-Chicago-Cleveland-Pittsburgh-Philadelphia

offshoot: Topeka-Oklahoma City-Dallas-Houston
offshoot: Dallas-New Orleans-Mobile-Orlando

offshoot: St. Louis-Memphis-Atlanta-Orlando-Tampa-Miami

offshoot: Chicago-Milwaukee-Minneapolis

offshoot: St. Louis-Indianapolis-Detroit
offshoot: Indianapolis-Pittsburgh


East

Boston-Hartford-NYC-Philadelphia-Batimore-Richmond-Raleigh-Atlanta

offshoot: NYC-Buffalo-Toronto-Montreal


So, Basically, start with Seattle-Portland-Sacramento-San-Francisco-Los Angeles, Los-Angeles-Denver-St. Louis-Chicago-Philadelphia, Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore, and then as demand neccessitates, add the offshoots. The main hubs would be Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, and Philadelphia, with second-stage and secondary hubs in NYC, Atlanta, Dallas, and Topeka; with other hubs created if/when necessary.

That make sense to everyone out there?

[Platypus]

My map. Places in CAPS are tage 1 stations, places underlined are hubs. Other stations and lines created as necessary. The stage 1 line is Seattle-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Denver-St. Louis-Chicago-Cleveland-Philadelphia-DC-Atlanta; Philadelphia-NYC-Boston.

Maps:



and...

[Platypus]

NE: 5.444(4444...) people/stop
SE: 22 people/stop (1 stop!  and that's just for New Englanders who want Disney vacations)
ME: 2.875 people/stop
MW: 15 people/stop (1 stop)
W: 2.2 people/stop

At this point, I would ask the governor to shut-up.  His point has been made, and I refuse to listen further.


Also, we are going by actual population figures, not Atlasian voters.

Jake was the sole motivation for my proposal to kick out people from snate debate threads

BTW, the maximum profitability is in mid-lenght journeys. IE, ones too short to make air travel worthwhile and long enough to convince people the slight extra cost in the train ticket is worth it-why pay twenty dollars more to get there 5 minutes earlier? Paying twenty dollars more to arrive an hour and a half earlier is much more likely to be sucessful.