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High Speed Rail: The Recruiters | 27 comments (27 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

But JR Hokkaido might soon find that switching to normal bus is even cheaper. This was exactly the experience of the German railways in the fifties-sixties, when they ran a number of different design actually functioning 'Schi-Stra' dual-mode buses.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 03:58:42 PM EST
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Not in their terrain they won't. Those rail bridges are there, and they are not going to be replaced by road bridges anytime soon.

Just as, in the US, the main advantage would be when there is a lightly used rail line that can be used for an express run, free of traffic congestion and traffic lights.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 04:27:48 PM EST
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