High Speed Rail In the Midwest

[amtrak2041864]

Hi Everybody.
I feel that many Americans do not really understand the advantages of high speed rail especially for business travellers. It can be that the actual time of travel between destinations can be achieved quicker by air than by rail even when HST journeys are involved, but when travelling by rail people can use their phones, laptops or tablets to be in directly touch with their offices or customers. No other form of transport can in any way rival that.

I am posting this from a British HST travelling down from London Paddington to North Somerset (UK). All around me are people phoning their offices, compiling reports or talking to customers of their companies. That makes this train a travelling office with all the extra productivity benefits for the various organizations that my fellow travelers work for.

If they were travelling by air or car their journey would be downtime by way of just having to sit there on an aircraft or bear all the frustrations of driving without being able to do anything else when travelling by road. Earlier in the week I travelled up to Manchester and prepared much of my paperwork for a meeting with a customer on the journey and then compiled a price quote for that customer on the return journey and emailed it into the office for release next day.

HST rail transforms travel for businesses making them more competitive and reduces cost by its productivity benefit. For those of us looking in on America from outside the above business benefits could be very much what the nation needs.

Bill

I totally agree, even right now while using Amtrak's Acela service I am a student. And I got so much work done, on the train in route to Philly. I finished a paper and started some research. I love the train, it is quick and is the fastest way to go.

 

[RRSignal]

Hi Everybody.
I feel that many Americans do not really understand the advantages of high speed rail especially for business travellers. It can be that the actual time of travel between destinations can be achieved quicker by air than by rail even when HST journeys are involved, but when travelling by rail people can use their phones, laptops or tablets to be in directly touch with their offices or customers. No other form of transport can in any way rival that.

You make a good point, but most major and I think even minor airlines offer wifi now.

(And, unrelated to HSR, but I have to say it as an occasional commuter, the cellphone thing is a big, fat strike against rail transportation! Nothing like a carful of people yelling into their cellphones, sharing every unmentionable detail of their lives...ugh!)

 

[amtrak2041864]

You make a good point, but most major and I think even minor airlines offer wifi now.

(And, unrelated to HSR, but I have to say it as an occasional commuter, the cellphone thing is a big, fat strike against rail transportation! Nothing like a carful of people yelling into their cellphones, sharing every unmentionable detail of their lives...ugh!)

I get you, I one time did it on an NJT express train to Trenton. Everyone looked at me weird