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Advantages
- Profitability
- Moves passengers from short-distance flights and car journeys over to a far more eco-friendly method of transport
- Reduces carbon emissions and oil dependence
- Will cost less than rebuilding airports to handle the same amount of passengers
- Connects city centres
- Competitive journey times. Especially when you factor it the time it takes to drive to an airport and get through security
- Rise in congestion and pressure on airports
- Is becoming the 'way forward', especially in Europe and China
- Economic benefits to cities. Many areas around the new stations will see plenty of redevelopment
- 2.5 hours from San Francisco to LA? Yes please
- Jobs created
- Support
Disadvantages
- Railways are cheaper than freeways but still expensive
- Generates local car journeys in cities
- Fares prices may cost more than equivalent airline tickets
- Concerns over safety requirements (more of an obstacle than a disadvantage)
- Electricity for trains still has to be generated somehow
- We assume the people in charge have done their maths homework, but there's always a chance the whole thing is a financial disaster
- Don't think the airline companies will be too happy about it
- Local opposition due to noise, road traffic, etc
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