Necessity today for our society is to grow beyond the technological accommodations from the 1800s. Land-use planning has to change from the unsustainable foundation of the automobile to a mode of transportation that is sustainable. Trains were a wonderful invention back in the early 1800s, however, we have advanced technologically since then. Throughout the world, civilization has created less costly sustainable maglev (magnetic levitation) transit systems, with others being developed in the US that are even more efficient.
In less time than it would take the proposed old heavy rail train technology that the CA High Speed Rail Authority is pushing to be built, at its $70million to $120million per mile cost; a smaller vehicle system (which has direct to station destination capability) could be fully implemented with 1,000+ mile per hour capability for less than $15million per mile elevated. The comparison in reduced time to build is the lack of necessity for heavy structure engineering: those costs simply don't exist. Smaller vehicles weigh less and the structures have less weight to engineer and build.
Political tradition is the barrier to efficient transportation. Ignorance on behalf of the political officials is a detriment to everyone. The technique of "pork barrel spending" to achieve failed status-quo policy is a system doomed. Our current economic meltdown is the evidence.
Our current system of sprawl land-use is broken. New Technology Transit is the solution.
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