Wasn't Honda sponsoring a number of Japanese DH riders when they were running their bike program?
It is but the cost of building HIGH SPEED railways is crazy. In most cases its hard to make money of out it acording to the latest article Ive read.
Europe is rad.It is but the cost of building HIGH SPEED railways is crazy. In most cases its hard to make money of out it acording to the latest article Ive read.
Though regular trains that go 160kph (100mph) are great anyway and the tickets cost 10% of the high speed stuff. Unless the cities are really far away for most euro countries it is still faster than a plane.
Though I have to say Id choose train over plane any day. No problems with bike transport (crazy fees), none of that check in hassle and far smaller chance of a cavity search
Are they kidding? I live in Poland, an ex eastern block country with railroads build by a rather weak economy loong time ago. How is it possible that with much bigger resources you cant build anything at least on par with us? That is silly.
Even if you arent interested in it - if you plan to do something at least make it close to good. Where they trying to use steam trains? Oh no wait early XX century english steam trains were faster than that... So they are a bit interestd but not enough to purchase a technology from times people were not afraid of lightbulbs?
Even Polish friends who have been living there for a couple of years now feel like its impossible to walk more than 3km.
The stops must be quite long then. Also isnt it more reasonable for long distance conections to have no stops? Here connection between the capital and 2 bigger cities that are around 300km away takes under 3h. Avg is close to 60-70mph if I calculate it right and its done by trains that look like this:
Because the US is about a million times bigger than Poland. Infrastructure costs are much, MUCH higher.
I realise the size differance but in more densely populated areas rail communication wouldnt be that hard. Some of the coastal areas have cities closer to each other than it often happens in here. For such a big country for long distances planes make more sense but but the whole area around NY, NJ and Boston is quite densly populated.
This area does have quite a bit of commuter rail already in place, and it is definitely used by the work crowd.
So dense in fact that you'd have to have stops every 30 ft, defeating the purpose. Also, you'd have to expropriate a ton of property just to be able to lay the rails. The US was built around a very car focused ideal, putting in things like rails now is a nightmare.
Why? The discussion just shifted from "who is going where" to the mode of transportation they use!
Many parts of the US had a really nice commuter rail system and light rail in many cities - far more than today. These were torn up (& or abandonded) in favor of auto-only alternatives. (i.e. car only, no pedestrian, no bike.) The auto industry's role in this is well known. One example is Pittsburgh - it used to have 68 light rail routes. Now it operates 3. Funny thing is they are now considering bringing some of these back and expanding the current system.
either GT or Intense Factory.
I hope you're not being facetious. Isn't he luck to have use of him limbs after that giant crash a few years ago?One Awesome pic right there !!!
maybe thats why he posted it
A few years ago the USA cleared a lot of land in Japan making it very easy to build some railroads.
A few years ago the USA cleared a lot of land in Japan making it very easy to build some railroads.
Come on. Its not like he is Mel Gibson.
Hence, "I hope you're not being facetious."maybe thats why he posted it
