High Speed Rail (Boston to... Texas?)

I have been in long lines at Logan, esp. check-in at Terminal E.

We need to split this thread.
 
Miami is THE WORST airport serving a major metro area, by a mile. LaGuardia is pretty awful and Newark? Pshh... feggedaboutit.
 
jass said:
Is it just me, or is Logan the emptiest airport in the world?

I've flown out of Logan dozens of times, and there's never a line, even right before a holiday. No line to check in, a tiny line to security, and then lots of room in the terminals.

Meanwhile, I was at National recently making a connection and the terminal was PACKED. I was in Las vegas last week and the security line stretched for miles...on a Thursday in January!
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You do realized Las Vegas handles roughly 14-15 million more passengers than Logan right? And that Logan has check ins at all 4 terminals, where McCarran, aside from Southwest, has a consolidated security area meaning passengers from several airlines all check in at the same spot. So of course McCarran is going to be and look more busy.

You also realize that Reagan is a smaller airport in size than Logan right?
 
aquaman said:
Miami is THE WORST airport serving a major metro area, by a mile. LaGuardia is pretty awful and Newark? Pshh... feggedaboutit.
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Miami is alright. It seems that the new terminals have been under construction for years and years. From what I have heard, they are way over budget and of course well past the expected completion date.

Food options at Miami are terrible for a major hub.
 
mass88 said:
You do realized Las Vegas handles roughly 14-15 million more passengers than Logan right? And that Logan has check ins at all 4 terminals, where McCarran, aside from Southwest, has a consolidated security area meaning passengers from several airlines all check in at the same spot. So of course McCarran is going to be and look more busy.

You also realize that Reagan is a smaller airport in size than Logan right?
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Those were just examples from the past 2 weeks. I also stopped by Dallas and Mexico City. Both were crowded.

Ive been to over a hundred airports. With the exception of Fresno, California and Curitiba, Brazil, I'd say Logan is usually the emptiest.
 
"Emptiest" is the wrong word. Logan actually serves a hell of a lot of passengers - I doubt it's ever really empty, though I agree that Logan has been a breeze for a few years. I think you might <gasp> actually be looking to make a compliment? "Emptiest" = "boasts an efficient wait-reducing layout which results in shorter lines and less congestion than airports of comparable size" perhaps?
 
Shepard said:
"Emptiest" is the wrong word. Logan actually serves a hell of a lot of passengers - I doubt it's ever really empty, though I agree that Logan has been a breeze for a few years. I think you might <gasp> actually be looking to make a compliment? "Emptiest" = "boasts an efficient wait-reducing layout which results in shorter lines and less congestion than airports of comparable size" perhaps?
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I didnt mean emptiest as a criticism. I think it's still the right word.

There's something about the size and layout which means, in my experience, there's never congestion.
 
we get worried when we hear about HSR plans that are already entering deeply-flawed territory. Like the scenario in Florida, where no agreement has been made about connecting the planned Orlando-Tampa HSR line (which, as you?ll recall, got a whopping $1.25 billion of the federal HSR funds) to SunRail, a 61-mile project that?ll be built on existing CSX tracks from DeLand to Poinicana, running through the east side of Orlando.
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According to current plans, the HSR line will follow Interstate 4 and have five stations ? none of which link to the SunRail. Which could severely hinder the ability of passengers to use the HSR line to get to their destinations, and consequently put a severe damper on the number of people who use both lines. What?s the point of spending millions on separate train lines in the same area if there?s no way to switch between them? The The Florida DOT is reportedly worried about slowing down travel time on the HSR line ? but if passengers aren?t able to access the train with ease, keeping up a lightning-fast speed won?t matter, since no one will ride the train. Plus we?re willing to bet that the average passenger would be willing to add 5 or 10 minutes of travel time for an opportunity to transfer between lines.
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http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/03/04/how-to-make-high-speed-rail-fail-dont-connect-the-lines/
 
This line:

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In this case the stupidity will not have even arrived on time. Or at least, it won't make its connection.
 
From what I understand, SunRail (a commuter train on a North/South axis) and High Speed Rail (Tampa to Orlando) will link together on the planned Light Rail project (East/West axis) that will service Orlando's tourism corridor.
 
That sounds as shitty an idea as Boston having a Greenway trolley as opposed to a true North/South rail link, and Orlando doesn't even have the excuse of needing to build an expensive tunnel.

Seriously, who is going to make two transit transfers to stay on rail...in Florida?
 
Not PERFECT?? It's nowhere near acceptable. Why waste public money?
 
There's an endemic to this forum for capitalizing entire words; soon it'll devolve into communication entirely through emoticons.
 
bdurden said:
There's an endemic to this forum for capitalizing entire words; soon it'll devolve into communication entirely through emoticons.
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Another "forum" I visit is "notorious" for having "members" who write entire "posts" like this.
 
We just went over that. Absurd to force people in Florida of all places to make two rail connections. This is the kind of stopgap solution you expect for a problem that is 100 years old, like the North-South Rail Link, not for two rail projects currently in planning stages.
 
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