Comments on: Spain’s High-Speed Trains a Hit with Fed-Up Flyers http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Thu, 24 May 2012 17:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: nokia bluetooth headset http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60906 nokia bluetooth headset Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:40:36 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60906 The train will perhaps attract more people in coming years but I don't think that more people will travel on trains then planes. At the maximum, 50% will travel on train, that is the maximum. The train will perhaps attract more people in coming years but I don’t think that more people will travel on trains then planes. At the maximum, 50% will travel on train, that is the maximum.

]]> By: Nosepicker http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60901 Nosepicker Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:18:41 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60901 220mph trains are really the stuff of legends. Kinda like the TGV, which the Spanish train is based on? I think its speed record is high 300s, which is not drag-racing fast but adequate. Also, have you looked on the accident record for the TGV? BTW, Bombardier is trying to bring to the US a slower version of the TGV under a different name... possibly to hide its French origins. 220mph trains are really the stuff of legends. Kinda like the TGV, which the Spanish train is based on? I think its speed record is high 300s, which is not drag-racing fast but adequate. Also, have you looked on the accident record for the TGV?

BTW, Bombardier is trying to bring to the US a slower version of the TGV under a different name… possibly to hide its French origins.

]]> By: Justin http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60902 Justin Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:42:38 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60902 A 220-mph train?! That's incredible! But would the high speed mean that the train is more likely to de-rail if there is a kink in the track? And if the train does de-rail, the results would be that much more disastrous. I'm sure train travel would still be statistically pretty safe. A 220-mph train?! That’s incredible! But would the high speed mean that the train is more likely to de-rail if there is a kink in the track? And if the train does de-rail, the results would be that much more disastrous. I’m sure train travel would still be statistically pretty safe.

]]> By: DMRowell http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60903 DMRowell Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:43:52 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60903 Hi - you load your article with some very strong phrases such as 'fuel guzzling domestic flights' et seq, but nowhere do you quantify or substantiate these claims. Can you please advise the passenger miles per gallon achieved by these trains assuming, say, a 50% load factor, so we can truly match them against the efficiency of planes (which, by the way, is exactly what?). Tks Hi – you load your article with some very strong phrases such as ‘fuel guzzling domestic flights’ et seq, but nowhere do you quantify or substantiate these claims.

Can you please advise the passenger miles per gallon achieved by these trains assuming, say, a 50% load factor, so we can truly match them against the efficiency of planes (which, by the way, is exactly what?).

Tks

]]> By: Erik van Erne, Milieunet Foundation http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60905 Erik van Erne, Milieunet Foundation Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:20:08 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60905 Great, hope the california High Speed Train will have the same effect. http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/andersbekekenblog/?p=6190 Great, hope the california High Speed Train will have the same effect.

http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/andersbekekenblog/?p=6190

]]> By: sealy http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/16/spains-high-speed-trains-a-hit-with-fed-up-flyers/comment-page-1/#comment-60904 sealy Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:07:24 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2228#comment-60904 Very interesting, would love to see something like this here in the U.S. - my work often requires that I fly from place to place, and no matter how many times I do it, its always an unpleasant experience. Very interesting, would love to see something like this here in the U.S. – my work often requires that I fly from place to place, and no matter how many times I do it, its always an unpleasant experience.

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