Make it cheaper for people, and make it faster for them; if they want to travel from Salt Lake City to St. George, make it so they can purchase a train ticket for half the price of a tank of gas -- and make it so they can get there in a third of the time.
Convenience sells, and so does comfort. Make it so they can lay back and sleep, watch a movie, connect to the Internet -- or play a game of cards like they did in days of old while traveling on trains. (Wait, my preference is chess; can we let them play chess, too?)
And, why are they going to St. George? Headed over to Zions National Park? Give them discounted tickets. For that matter, give them discounts for all goods and services at participating merchants anywhere in the area.
We're going to construct bullet train lines for this transportation. Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains can hit speeds of 320 miles per hour. This is America. There is no reason we can't have such bullet trains here. This is Utah, and Utah always seems to consider itself ahead of the curve. Time to prove it, Utah.
The idea behind all of this is to move into the second half of the 21st Century by converting our travels to electricity. Bullet trains are electric. The automobile is pouring tons of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and long trips are a fair part of that. If we don't stop greenhouse emissions by 2050, heaven help our world. (And, if we don't do something on our own, why should we expect heaven to help us?)
(Index -- Climate change info)
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