That's not really going to help the daily commuters, though. Which I imagine accounts for most of the typical intended traffic between Dallas and Houston. Well, maybe Uber I guess.Soontir C'boath wrote:Same can be said for those traveling by air between Dallas and Houston or for any place you would travel to; rent a car or Uber it.
But NYC itself actually has decent mass transit for when you get there, which is the key thing. When I was in Boston for a month, I did much the same thing; I was staying in one of the towns a ways away, and drove to the MTA light rail station in that town. When I got to Boston, I could use the Subway and such to get where I needed to go.Soontir C'boath wrote:Perhaps I see things a bit differently because many Long Islanders certainly drive to LIRR stations especially to the lines that have higher frequencies to take a train into NYC where there aren't a whole lot of free parking, but a whole lot of expensive garages.
The problem is, if Dallas and Houston don't have decent mass transit to where the commuters need to go, they won't ride a high-speed rail only to walk 4 miles in the Texas summer or whatever. They'll just drive.
It's like my University professor who lives in Orlando example. If it takes the same amount of time to use mass transit when he gets to Tampa for a less than 10 mile journey as it would to just drive there in the first place, why would he take the high speed rail link? Especially if the schedule isn't terribly convenient between when the Orlando -> Tampa and Tampa -> Orlando trains run, whenever that would have been?