http://blog.raileurope.com/9684-high-speed-rail-news-roundup-31 Travel Tips & Inspiration from Rail Europe Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.raileurope.com/9684-high-speed-rail-news-roundup-31#comment-7262 cinchagirl Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:29:00 +0000 http://blog.raileurope.com/?p=9684#comment-7262 Train travel in the US, when the tracks are not owned by Amtrak, will always be sooooo slow because passenger trains have to give way to freight trains. My train stopped in the middle of the woods for over an hour with no announcement or explanation. Anyone who has ever travelled on trains in Europe or Japan knows how efficient they are, even the regular trains. They actually arrive and leave at the posted times. Forward thinking countries will and have embraced train travel, but since the US is still stuck in the ‘automobile is king’ time warp, trains will never get the attention they deserve. Geez Louise, I live in Seattle, and they only recently finished the first light rail line from Seattle to SEATAC, and local government is still fighting over it. What they didn’t fight over was collecting taxes to pay for it for 10 plus years, and then trying to kill the project.

]]> http://blog.raileurope.com/9684-high-speed-rail-news-roundup-31#comment-7258 Ralf W Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:24:00 +0000 http://blog.raileurope.com/?p=9684#comment-7258 U.S. train service is so pitifully slow that to us, 110 mph is “high speed.” Sad.

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