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Columbusite
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The Guardian wrote Train in Spain sets out to beat the plane
Delays and disruption, disgruntled passengers left standing on platforms, accusations of political incompetence and financial mismanagement: the development of the Spanish railway system has a number of things in common with its British counterpart. But when the new high-speed link between Madrid and Barcelona sets off later this month, those complaints will be set aside as the super-slick Ave S103 service carves its way through the Spanish countryside at speeds of nearly 220mph.
The Ave S103 is the kind of train that British commuters can only dream of, and forms the centrepiece of plans to make Spain a model for the rest of Europe, and the world leader in high-speed trains by 2010.
Its 200-metre aluminium chassis carries 404 passengers, whose reclining chairs - which can swivel to face the direction of travel - are fitted with video and music players.
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This is what they do in 1st world countries.
Instead of driving the 6 hours between Madrid and Barcelona the ride is just over 2 1/2 hours, that's less than half (my math skills are superb). It opens on the 20th of this month.
We're still waiting for a 5-mile streetcar line to break ground, never mind a high speed rail line. To put things in perspective, the amount of time it takes you to drive to Dayton is how long a ride on this thing would take to get from Cleveland to Cincinnati. Columbus to Cincinnati: 30 min. Columbus to Cleveland: 45 min.
We suck...as a nation, I mean.

Posted 4 years ago #
bremkat
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What do you mean, never mind about a high speed rail line?
As I tell everyone, I'm working on it. An army of volunteers and a boat load of cash would certainly help.

Posted 4 years ago #
Anne
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That is cool.
I like the design of this rail station.
[img]http://image.guim.co.uk/Guardian/arts/gallery/2007/dec/03/architecture.railtravel/GD5509808@Zaha-Hadid's-railway--728.jpg[/img]

Posted 4 years ago #
surber17

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Columbusite wrote
The Guardian wrote Train in Spain sets out to beat the plane
Delays and disruption, disgruntled passengers left standing on platforms, accusations of political incompetence and financial mismanagement: the development of the Spanish railway system has a number of things in common with its British counterpart. But when the new high-speed link between Madrid and Barcelona sets off later this month, those complaints will be set aside as the super-slick Ave S103 service carves its way through the Spanish countryside at speeds of nearly 220mph.
The Ave S103 is the kind of train that British commuters can only dream of, and forms the centrepiece of plans to make Spain a model for the rest of Europe, and the world leader in high-speed trains by 2010.
Its 200-metre aluminium chassis carries 404 passengers, whose reclining chairs - which can swivel to face the direction of travel - are fitted with video and music players.
Read More
This is what they do in 1st world countries.
Instead of driving the 6 hours between Madrid and Barcelona the ride is just over 2 1/2 hours, that's less than half (my math skills are superb). It opens on the 20th of this month.
We're still waiting for a 5-mile streetcar line to break ground, never mind a high speed rail line. To put things in perspective, the amount of time it takes you to drive to Dayton is how long a ride on this thing would take to get from Cleveland to Cincinnati. Columbus to Cincinnati: 30 min. Columbus to Cleveland: 45 min.
We suck...as a nation, I mean.
At that speed you could reach San Fran in under 10 hours and prob. do it for a fraction of the price. Not to mention trains and leaps and bounds more environmentally friendly. It sickens me that we spend billions of dollars to bail out airlines instead of building something better. Isn't that what our economy is based on....competition? The airlines have never gotten better because they don't have to; they can just bank on the gov. coming to the rescue.

Posted 4 years ago #
Stewz

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Bremkat--
Checked out the allaboardohio site and I like what I see on there. What exactly are you doing to get the rail transportation moving along in Ohio? I completely agree that we need high speed transit between the 3C cities and obviously the street cars in Columbus. I would just like to know what all your organization has planned before commiting any monies to the cause. I am sure that other people as well would like some examples. Keep up the fight!

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bremkat
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Stewz wrote Bremkat--
Checked out the allaboardohio site and I like what I see on there. What exactly are you doing to get the rail transportation moving along in Ohio? I completely agree that we need high speed transit between the 3C cities and obviously the street cars in Columbus. I would just like to know what all your organization has planned before commiting any monies to the cause. I am sure that other people as well would like some examples. Keep up the fight!
I'm glad our website has gotten around back to me. The All Aboard Ohio website is not perfect and I suppose I'm to blame for that, but for the budget we have it's fantastic.
Right now, we are working on the Ohio Hub Plan. The next step for the Hub Plan is a Programatic Environmental Impact Statement to make it a true transportation project in the eyes of the federal and state government. We are working with Congresswoman Kaptur D-9 and Congressman Ryan D-17 for federal funds to pay for the study. The state already paid a couple of million to do the Economic Impact Statement, so now it's the federal's turn. All Aboard Ohio will be sending out letters and emails to our supporters in those districts to move the proccess along. As soon as any of the central Ohio congressmen talk positive, I'll let this blog know.
We have a state-wide Lobby Day here in Columbus on April 30th to address state support for the Hub Plan as well as the pittiful state support for Ohio's Public Transit systems. More details to follow once I have everything lined up.
We're also building our membership (more membership = more money and more pressure on political "leaders") through making phone calls to prospective members. That event will be Monday, February 18th 5:30 - 8:30. Free Cheeseburgers. Free 10 minute training. We're working on a live webcast of it too. Email me if you're interested in helping out.

Posted 4 years ago #
Walker
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Columbusite wrote We suck...as a nation, I mean.
Good convincing argument.

Posted 4 years ago #
PodFive
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bremkat -
I think i might have run into you at some point recently, maybe the green fair at Ohio state in fall quarter?
In any case, I think i'm on some email list. What kind of volunteering are you looking for?
I would love to be able to take a train to visit family in Cincinnati.. the bus is horrible, and a plane just doesn't make any sense.

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bremkat
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PodFive wrote bremkat -
I think i might have run into you at some point recently, maybe the green fair at Ohio state in fall quarter?
In any case, I think i'm on some email list. What kind of volunteering are you looking for?
I would love to be able to take a train to visit family in Cincinnati.. the bus is horrible, and a plane just doesn't make any sense.
That is most entirely possible. Right now, I'm looking for volunteers to help with the fun and not fun stuff of what we do. The fun stuff is phone calling or staffing a table at a public event. There's nothing quite like reaching out and touching someone and see what average joes think about our issues.
And there's the not fun stuff of building excel sheets, stuffing envelopes, and mailings. Basically all the big mundane stuff that gets us the numbers we need to move political leaders. An hour or so every two weeks would work wonders for us.

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