Then use 5 hours instead of 4.
You can't aspire using the impossible. You'll drive off those who are wary of scammers and grifters, leaving only the gullible.
The WPA didn't find the interstate highway system.
You can't aspire using the impossible. You'll drive off those who are wary of scammers and grifters, leaving only the gullible.
The WPA didn't find the interstate highway system.
Re: highways, thank you for pointing that out. I've fixed the article by s/interstate highway system/public works program/ with link to the details. Btw, FDR spent over $4B on highways, roads, and streets, a considerable sum in those days.
Re: You can't aspire using the impossible." Naysayers like you are why we may hever have this.
How do you know it's not going to be 2 hours? Or 1 hour?
The evidence you presented requires a straight connection between the two cities. That's not going to happen, for reasons I presented and for which you yourself agreed.
If it happens it will be via regional hubs, say via Chicago and Denver. Even non-stop (with no additional acceleration and deceleration) that non-GC route will add more time. Plus there's the 10 minutes or so for acceleration/deceleration to 600mpn.
If you pigeonhole me as a naysayer then may I pigeonhole you as one of those Project Plowshare advocates who wanted to use nukes to make harbors and canals, and fracture the ground for oil production? Or as a modern Lyle Lanley?
I'm asking you to use realistic numbers which make you seem well-informed, not numbers that are easily dismissed as overly optimistic, if not ridiculous.
Just like in Marge vs. the Monorail, US infrastructure is horribly under-maintained. https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/ for example. That sort of Federal involvement in local projects is more in line with FDR's Great Depression actions than Eisenhower's interstate system.