"Alternatively, I still favour doing long EV trips by fast electric train with special carriages so you can take your EV with you - used to be called Motorail here in the UK. I do wonder if the vast majority of Americans have forgotten the pleasure of train travel or simply never experienced it and therefore just do not consider it a viable alternative to the road..."
As someone who has ridden the trains across a number of states in both the eastern and western US in order to get me and my bicycle to where I was doing bicycle rides for a few weeks, I must say they were not pleasant experiences. Very inconvenient hours, long delays since the tracks are owned by private freight companies resulting in Amtrak getting side railed to give the freights priority, and poor service from nasty personnel. Nothing like my experiences on trains in the EU, Japan, Singapore, and Korea. I have long wondered why anyone could fault Amtrak for not being on time when they have no control of the tracks they run on. I've also wondered why we let the private lines get away with that since the land the tracks are on were once publicly owned lands that were given to them along with vast other tracks of land for them to lumber for railroad ties. If we want to have efficient passenger rail travel in the US that will have to change. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EV-charging-stations-tp4660792p4661124.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
