Proposed Amtrak improvements - Pontiac/Detroit to Chicago

[Gpwrangler]

A big hurdle that still needs to be overcome is that you have many at grade crossings and running a train at that speed is just not safe. Those will need to either be closed, be grade separated [[bridges), or have some impassable gates installed [[and maintained). There is just not enough money for those improvements as evidenced by the lousy roads and transit we currently have.

The high speed train is just as deadly as a 20mph freight train if you go around the gates. Crossings can be upgraded later.

[DetroitPlanner]

The high speed train is just as deadly as a 20mph freight train if you go around the gates. Crossings can be upgraded later.

Said the man that lives in the Utopian non-litigious society.

[Gpwrangler]

Said the man that lives in the Utopian non-litigious society.

I've lived in places with no gates at all, and managed to survive somehow.

[Hermod]

Said the man that lives in the Utopian non-litigious society.

Congress ought to pass a law which permits a "you dumb shit" defense in court of a tort suit.