To the editor: Did James E. Moore II, a professor emeritus of transportation engineering at USC, totally contemplate local weather change in his letter stating that the California high-speed rail cannot compete economically?
As our local weather grows extra unpredictable and ferocious, vacationers might discover air journey too harmful and unreliable. Increasingly flights shall be unable to evolve to the schedules set by airways. Vacationers may resolve that the time and ordeal of safety and attending to and from the airport should not worthwhile.
When planes can’t fly, high-speed rail is important.
Lloyd A. Dent, Northridge
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To the editor: Within the development business it’s typically stated, “You may have it low-cost, you may have it quick, you may have it good — however you may’t have all three.”
When contemplating high-speed rail transportation, I believe we disregard the price of transporting issues (and folks) by air. Why are most items (particularly heavy ones) transported both by sea or rail fairly than on airplanes?
Sure, prepare journey is extra time-consuming, however by how a lot? How a lot time is expended touring to and from extensively dispersed airports versus extra handy prepare terminals?
How a lot time is spent checking and retrieving your baggage? When touring by prepare, your baggage are sometimes proper there so that you can decide up as you step onto the platform.
Rail infrastructure largely exists already, together with the land devoted to rights of manner and terminals. A comparatively modest funding may improve these for high-speed journey.
Anybody who has traveled overseas can in all probability attest to the comfort, economic system and high quality of contemporary rail transportation — good, low-cost and quick.
Philip Baer, North Hollywood
