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Highways VS. Amtrak

By:: Eli Yudin

January 07, 2022

Highways VS. Amtrak

Absolutely no planes, but trains and automobiles!

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK COVERING GROUND America has been a car Train travel may be considered quaint culture through and through since the first nowadays, in the domain automobiles rolled off of murder mysteries and assembly lines, and the Harry Potter, but there are size of its federal highway plenty of reasons not to let it fall by the wayside. system is massive. CRACKED.COM

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK FIRST STEPS Though many passenger Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the legislation railroads already existed, creating the U.S. Interstate the Congressional Rail Highway System on June Passenger Service Act combined them into one 29, 1956, and the first miles of asphalt expanse federal service on were laid within months. May 1, 1971. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amtrak & Army

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK CAPACITY Most cars can hold 5-8 Different Amtrak trains have different seating people. But you already knew that, because you capacities depending on live in reality and aren't a the route, but most hold around 300 passengers, strange alien just now learning about our culture 2-3 of whom are Wes through websites. Anderson characters. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amtrak

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK SPEED How fast an Amtrak train is Speed limits in the US differ from state to state, allowed to go depends on with Texas the highest at the track. The lowest limit (excluding dangerous an average speed limit of 78 mph. Most states hover mountain passes) is 79 around a 70 mph speed mph and the highest limit. So add 5 mph to that. speeds are 150 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amtrak & CNN

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK LOCATIONS This one's a pretty clear Amtrak has 500 win for the automobile destinations across the industry, as cars can drive country, and every single pretty much anywhere, one of them includes a especially if you don't care Dunkin Donuts with a about your license getting single, very overwhelmed taken away. employee. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amtrak

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK TOTAL SIZE The National Highway Amtrak travels on 21,000 miles of train track, though System includes over 164,000 miles of highway they don't own all of it. across the country. And This gives them a here's how long it would comparatively low TTCBT take a tortoise to walk (Time To Completion By that: 62.4 years. Tortoise) of 7.99 years. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amtrak & Federal Highway Administration

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK COST PER MILE Super E10 1.469 VBB-Fahrkarten DE BAHN S Bake Redie Super 1.50% Super Plus 1.569 Mark another win in the Realistically, outside of car column, as anyone limited location, this is one who's looked up train of the biggest things prices probably knows. holding train travel back. Amtrak travel costs an It costs an average of .25 average of .38 per per passenger mile to travel by car. passenger mile. CRACKED.COM — Source: Antiplanner

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK CARBON FOOTPRINT Modern trains do a whole Here's where the automobile industry is in lot better than the days of trouble (or it would be if it a mustachioed man didn't have such great shoveling coal. Trains lobbyists). A medium car produce a miniscule 66g of produces 307g of C02 per CO2 per passenger-mile, passenger-mile traveled. one-fifth that of cars. CRACKED.COM — Source: TheStreet

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK SAFETY OM TOWING LYDENBURG Cars are dangerous. Not Trains have a very low that we don't know that. To fatality rate, though still the tune of 7.3 deaths for not as low as planes. There every billion passenger are 0.43 deaths for each miles. 213 deaths if you're billion passenger-miles traveled. Unless you're in on a motorcycle, you son of anarchy, you! an Agatha Christie novel. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vox

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U.S. INTERSTATE TRAVEL HIGHWAYS VS. AMTRAK FINAL THOUGHTS BROADWAY U.S. car travel is like Trains are like supporting Amazon. We understand local businesses. At first, that it's bad for the planet you feel great! Why did you and it occasionally maims ever do anything else!? people, but look, it's Then you're standing on the sidewalk staring at a cheap, convenient, and Christmas is in 2 days. $200 credit card receipt. CRACKED.COM

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