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jimmiller5418
Just say NO to high speed rail service
Apr 20 2009, 9:21 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 20 2009, 9:21 PM EDT
I am dead against highspeed rail service:

1. It only works serving major cities.
2. The tracks do not stay straight and level and eventually the trains have to slow way down.
3. An elevated tracked air cushion vehicle would do better.
4. A Maglev method would do better.
5. Let's work on reducing the number trip miles traveled by vehicles powered excluisvely by internal comustion engines.
6. Start forming mini-towns around (even in urban and suburban areas) the idea where "We work where we live, and we live where we work". This is the start of the "small is good" approach to city, county and state planning "as if people mattered" as against planning "as if only vehicles, the automakers and the oil companies mattered."
7. Support startup worker cooperative whose members live in the same ecovillage, work various jobs and run various businesses in this democratic worker community. See: http://masallp.wetpaint.com.

Jim Miller
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