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Boondoggle!! Who in the Hell wants to travel along the routes you are constructing in numbers great enough to break-even much less lose a boatload of money???

Better talk to the trump adm replacement

Where is mayor Pete?

You need to talk with freight lines and get their buy in

Cat?

Ten years? How about 5?

We need to get Andy Byford a Joe Rogan microphone setup.

FOR SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE/ CANBERRA THE FIRST SECTION THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS THE CAMPBELLTOWN TO MITTAGONG SECTIONS, STRAIGHTEN AND LEVELLING/ BUILDING VIADUCTS TO BYPASS THE EXTREMELY SLOW AND WINDING ROUTE THROUGH PICTON, EXTEND THE SYDNEY TRAINS TO PICTON WITH THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THAT TRACK.

PEOPLE COULD LIVE IN TAREE AND BE 2 HOURS FROM SYDNEY UPGRADE THE BROADMEADOW TO WYONG SECTION BY STRAIGHTENING AND LEVELLING, ALSO DUPLICATE THE BROADMEADOW TO FASSIFERN SECTION SO A LOCAL SERVICE CAN RUN ON A DEDICATED LINE FOR THE WORKERS AND STUDENTS IN THE NEWCASTLE AREA WHO TRAVEL INTO NEWCASTLE DAILY. YOU COULD THEN BYPASS ALL STATIONS BETWEEN BROADMEADOW AND FASSIFERN ON THE FAST RAIL AND THEN PEOPLE WHO LIVE BETWEEN FASSIFERN AND BROADMEADOW CAN THEN CATCH THE FAST TRAIN TO SYDNEY AT FASSIFERN YOU COULD THEN ALSO HAVE EXPRESS TRAINS EVERY 30 MINUTES DURING PEAK HOUR, THEN EVERY HOUR DUDING THE REST OF THE DAY, STOPPING AT NEWCASTLE, HAMILTON, BROADMEADOW, FASSIFERN, WYONG/ TUGGERAH, GOSFORD, HORNSBY, STRAITHFIELD AND CENTRAL WITH SLOWER ALL STATIONS/ SHIP STATION TRAINS, EVERY 30 MINUTES

"High speed trains make a so much sense to use within the vast country of America. So much less stressful to get around the country if you can abandon having to use planes that take forever to utilize: ..Drive to the airport, massive traffic congestion; check your baggage in; get in huge lines to make sure someone's not carrying a gun!, wait for your plane to show up.... get on board.... And finally take off! Get up the date America!

I hope that fabulous Andy Byford is still able in improve the pathetic 'rail -system' in the US of Awfulness .. Who knows! The corruption and terrible uselessness is mind-blowing . Groan! I hope that he'll be able to meet and hook up with fabulous Elon Musk asap who's doing all he can to upgrade and make sense of the terrible way the US is ruled !!! Thank you fabulous Andy.. We met in New York.. and had a natter! You're amazing .. Good luck !

Hydrogen MUs over just getting a DMU or diesel battery hybrid is certainly an interesting choice. Some of the services in Texas seem ideal to copy, 3-6 car flirts running 30 min headways. In California we’ve fought hard to kill the hydrogen rail program as the states committed over 250M on 10 intercity 4 car and arrows 2 car train set. That’s before we get to hundreds of millions that need to be spent on fueling infrastructure. So far arrows hydrogen fueling station which includes 0 generation is years behind schedule and 50% over budget

Waste of money. There is not the density for this.

Next slide Chris!

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will it stop at the indianoplis international speed way home ofthe indanolis 500 car race.

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Why an underground Japanese SC maglev? It enables a secure straight tunnel that is no more expensive than on the surface. This enables the overnight container trains to replace trucks as it has to go 600 km/h which is impossible with wheels. A single guideway between passing stations allows this speed. By having twin guideways at passing stations it allows 2 stations at each city where trains southbound wait while northbound trains are doing 600 km/h and vice versa. This allows daytime trains to leave each city every half hour for only $10 to anywhere as the income comes from replacing trucks and planes. A 14 meter diameter single tunnel can be driven Sydney to Melbourne in two years by FIFO Chinese workers with 60 TBM from 30 launch sites with a further year to install the Japanese SC maglev.

As the crow flys, Sydney to Melbourne is 700km. Make it 850km to account for the track wiggling. Doing that in 4hrs means speeds of ~130mph. HS2 is ~225mph. France reaches 200mph. High speed rail isn't that much more expensive than slower speed rail. Should they increase the speed to say 175mph, then Melbourne to Sydney can be done in 4hours.

I've lived in Colorado Springs since 1984, and I've been hearing about a front range rail since 1984. Don't hold your breath.

Already a giant failure and still years away. Astonishing that this gentleman apologizes for his accent but not his short-sighted greed. Go ahead buddy, follow the brief and use billions of public money to build your private right of way and private station with no bus connections. No regional transit connections. No Amtrak connections. This is what tax payers are giving away to companies like Brightline. Not just our money, but all foresight and planning to solve any transportation issues outside of their narrow self-interests. Even the connections to local trains at the smaller stations are absolutely terrible. No thought whatsoever regarding that integration. Brightline is getting $3B of tax money plus tax exemptions that mean taxpayers are funding more than a quarter of this so-called private project, and that's not enough for this guy to even consider a connection to a bus or Amtrak. Horrible people horrible planning but let's watch them all congratulate and fawn all over each other.

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Have a look at Rail Baltica... 500+ km of new build HSR for €26m ($40m) per km.

Hopefully, "High Speed Rail Alliance" will also try and include support for "Higher Speed" rail service: ~79 MPH to ~120 MPH. And: Amtrak should consider "Greenway" construction projects for traditional <79 MPH routes. In particular: building ~40 miles of "Greenway" rail between Parker, AZ & Topock, AZ + ~80 miles more between Needles, CA & Boulder City, NV would complete an already existing set of tracks between downtown Phoenix, AZ & Las Vegas, NV. That would include ~12 miles of existing BNSF rail line & bridge crossing the Colorado River between Topock & Needles. Additionally, a complete new north/south route could be created connecting Phoenix - Las Vegas - Salt Lake City - Boise - Portland - Seattle. Or staying within the State of Arizona: a daily tourist train connecting downtown Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, via Williams.

Florida's Brightline is losing tons of money, even after big public subsidies like tax-free bonds and public funding of its stations. It also continues killing large numbers of motorists at its road crossings, almost 100 dead and many more injured. Brightline also has gotten endless fawning media coverage that ignores and covers up its major failures,,

Blah blah blah. It ain't going to happen. Sydney to Melbourne is atleast a $200 billion project and probably a lot more. On the east coast we have cities, valleys, mountains, forests, rivers, animal habitats and land subidence issues from different mining issues. Both sides of government have thrown away our manufacturing and technical capabilities over the last 40-50 years. We have gone from 70% manufaturing to less then 5% and our freight rail movement on the east coast has also dropped by the same amount. We don't have the population and the plane is perfect for our country and the distances we have to travel. Some will point to Sydney to Melbourne being one of the busiest air routes but it only moves about 10 million a year. Sydney trains moves that many people in 10 days. Then there is the really big issue that it won't help the rail freight business at all.

australia really is such a disaster when it comes to these things, theres just so many different things that all cause different issues for rail, even down to stuff like how even our cities are allergic to building anything over 2 stories tall but thats a whole lot of stuff to try and fix all at once to try make things work and trying to do so many things at once is going to annoy so many people(even if theyre wrong) i think fasttracks segmented upgrades approach will work really well, just doing bit by bit over time it certainly wont result in a network that i would consider ideal, but i have no idea what im talking about also one of the slides mentioned the sydney to newcastle network terminating at hexham???? extending the line from newcastle out to hexham is such a weird spot to end, its the middle of nowhere, or is it trying to connect up to the newcastle freight bypass network that is in planning

"not quite as much being spent on metros in brisbane" lol yeah thats probably because they bought buses and just call it a 'metro'

I'm a resident of Lake Macquarie, and have caught trains to the Sydney CBD and other parts of Sydney numerous times. I also drive to Sydney and beyond fairly frequently, in spite of living about 5 minutes walk from Cardiff station. The current services really are that bad. The existing rail line in Newcastle has limited usage, in part because it doesn't connect effectively to the population and business centres. The only way that a high speed line is going to really work at the Newcastle end is for several interconnected fast metro lines to be built in the Newcastle area, and for there to be a high-speed to metro interchange station at say Fassifern, connecting to suburbs on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie, particularly Charlestown. Relying on buses on the existing road network to provide connections to high speed rail stations simply cannot provide the connection speed needed to lure people out of their cars. Developing a metro network also opens up the opportunity for Transport Oriented Development at metro stations. There's arguably a similar need for metro lines on the Central Coast, connecting from Tuggerah to the coast.

Labor government in 1986

Planning of these projects and environmental studies take way too long. They result is massive expense before a shovel is turned and exhaustion of advocates, as well of course as risking funding and political support.

Just his usually thirteen slide dog and pony show. All lip service no action.

One way to gain more support will be to have a suburban station on the high speed line. This will help win political support in the suburbs, as will allow people to use the line without having to travel into downtown and break down some of the us vs them polarization.

Building 55 miles of CAHSR tunnels will be extremely challenging.

Sorry he seems to be an all talk no results politician. He says HSR from Houston to Dallas should average 240 miles per hour. Oh really?

Great job Rick and Andy!

As someone whos probably found more often on the other side of the aisle, this representative is absolutely right about the ways to convince Right leaning folks on the benefits of HSR. I'm a recent convert on this after taking HSR in Spain. I even remember mentioning to my wife while waiting in the train station in Madrid how cool it must be that you can go almost anywhere in the country from here in a just a few hours. How nice that must feel. Inwas so impressed that I came back and rode Brightline and had a good experience there too. I live in NC and I totally agree that NC is probably doing wrong by limiting the speed to 110, but at least it's something. I hope he can convince them to do better without delay the project more than it needs to.

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Tell Byford to call High Speed Trains “Trump Trains” and we will get funding.

But we need high speed rail from Janesville,WI. Going to Chicago. The instate is now 6 lanes. 3 to Chicago, and 3 leaving. Rail would solve that. With a stop in Janesville,Wi.

Andy Byford forgot to tell that that network he showed of the German rail network only shows ICE/EC/IC trains. If regional trains, metro's, trams, and light rail would be shown, the network would quite literally be 15 times as large. Also, he just told that Eurostar doesn't interline with regional and freight trains eventough it does.

Why do I seem to not have much confidence in Mr. Byford?

I am from the USA. I am an activist to various things.

1:13 we need to build it, yes. But we shouldn’t. Why? Because the people in this country have already lost their minds to cars. This country is gonna eat itself out

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As a non car driver, reading the first 5 minutes, a lot trash in this video. There is no difference between Liberal n conservatives. They love cars. Liberal wanted to build freeway to HSR. HSR never talk about improve public transportation like Tokyo. Oh, You talk about not building freeway. Don't worry the local bus service fund will be siphoned to build useless HSR n freeway to HSR stations. HSR in Texas. Joke. Can you guys propose raise walking score ,public transportation in Texas cities , n then HSR. Brightline will lose the money with couple million annual ridership. Brightline already admitted it. The government will take over this expensive project. Why can't that money to be use to improve public transportation. NO BECAUSE HSR supporters like you cannot get out cars. I know 20 more minutes more junk have to be read.

i doubt that denver-salt lac city w could be built it is extemely mountaious a or down really narroew valley with little extra land to build either tracks or staions onb and you would never get colorado to vote for it as it is all small towns and no cities between them. boston-worster suffers the same problem yes i boston woster should be 110 -150 miles because t the midway stations are too close to make true highspeed rail makes sense.

Great conversation, I know Tennessee has almost no passenger rail outside of one Amtrak route but this has changed my mind about advocating for high speed rail where it makes sense in the state. Previously I just wanted rail service connecting our 4 largest cities. I appreciate Congressmen Multon and HSRA taking the time to discuss this.