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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 10:04:00 No.271423 View View Reply Original Report

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>If a bill now before the Illinois Senate is passed, private consortiums could soon be battling for the right to build a bullet train that could link downtown Chicago with O’Hare and Rockford International Airport.

Sauce: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/04/30/bill-before-senate-could-put-bullet-train-in-i-90-median/

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 10:10:00 No.271425 Report

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 10:23:00 No.271428 Report

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 11:08:00 No.271432 Report

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>>271423
Dude, I'm from Rockford, I fucking want that train. We need more fucking trains. Driving an hour and a half to chicago everytime I need to go on a trip is a pain in the ass.

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Anonymous !mLrP2EAMX.!!d+8cIzNyeSo Sun 01 May 2011 11:48:00 No.271436 Report

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That's fucking fantastic. Everywhere can stand to have another bullet train! Particularly if it's as meticulously organized as Japan or China(?) handles their trains. ('Late' cards to hand to your boss if a train is more than a minute late. Neat, single file boarding lines.
>I don't know crap about travel or transportation, but I think I'll come by this board more often.

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 20:43:00 No.271506 Report

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>>271432
OP here, I'm from Rockford, too. The biggest problem with this idea is that it's a fucking bullet train that travels between Rockford and Chicago. Is there really so much traffic traveling between those two cities to justify such a project?

Personally, I'm having a hard time deciding weather this is more or less retarded than the three-hour Amtrak line that's going to start between here and Chicago any day now. On the one hand, the fantasy bullet train would take half as long to get to Chicago, but would cost a moderately sized fortune to build. On the other hand, you have the three-hour Amtrak line to Chicago, which is costing next to nothing to start since it'll use already existing freight lines, but only saves you about eight minutes over walking to Chicago.

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:23:00 No.271624 Report

Quoted By: >>271633

>>271506
Britfag here. Learn from our mistakes - spend the money and build the line. We failed spectacularly to upgrade our infrastructure after WW2, and stuck with the cheap sticking plasters. As a result, we were forced to close vast swathes of the network because the operating costs were so steep. We got an improvement to a major line that forms the backbone of our network by crippling it for 10 years at a stupid cost, because we'd left it so long.

Do it properly from the outset.

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:49:00 No.271631 Report

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 13:54:00 No.271633 Report

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>>271624
>Britfag here. Learn from our mistakes
AND DO NOT FUCKING PRIVATIZE

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Anonymous Tue 03 May 2011 02:38:00 No.271695 Report

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>mfw Murrikan railroads have been private since the 19th Century

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