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Originally Posted by discoman
We all have seen the New York city subway system.It moves millions of people everyday.It does not produce any polluton,and you can ride for many miles for just $2 dollars, all day long if you want to.My question to you all, why not construct a national subterranian high speed rail network?.Let us be realistic
the, the airline industry is now operating at their maximum capacity.A high speed subterranian rail network system would be the best solution to take some of the load of the overburdened airlines at this point in time.
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Most likely reason that this will never be done is cost. Tunneling through the earth is very expensive and slow.
Note that electric subway trains do cause pollution. The electricity used to run them come for the common electrical grid which still gets most of its power from fossil fuels.