11-05-2015, 01:46 PM
(11-05-2015, 12:34 PM)Canard Wrote: Oh please, do tell, how the Turbo was a "nightmare". Go on, I'm listening.
What part of "deservedly or not" did you not understand?
I was riffing off the dream metaphor and extended it, appropriately or not. In any case, the Turbo is dead, be it the result of a nightmare or a mercy killing. That's not a fate I'd want to see in whatever rail technology we end up with.
Lighten up. No one here is against vastly improved rail service. No one here is against HSR in principle, providing it's the best solution. And for me, someone who's a bit longer in the tooth than most, it's far more important that it gets built in my lifetime than how sexy it is to rail fanboys