The United States should make a trans-continental monorail for human transportation

I will first go over my opponents attacks onto my case then say voters. (CR# = Counter Refutation) CR1 Status Quo When I said "current train system" I intended the current transcontinental railroad. I do agree that there is already a current train system but I said that no one ever rides because they are fed up with it and there needs to be a new change to the current situation. I would wish to point out that there are differences and similarities of a railroad train and a monorail the similarities is that they both are train like and the major difference is that the monorail rides 1 rail unlike a railroad train. I wish to remind my opponent that I was discouraging the railroad (steam powered train) because they do not work to best help everyone and that is the only "train like" system we have currently. CR2 Cost My opponent agrees with me that a monorail will be cheap. Con says that there will be high ticket costs, that is not the only option. There could be other means to get the money back from building it, either by selling expensive things on board, a type of gift shop, or stores at both end of the monorail. But I would like to point out that I said "Now also keep in mind that places such as Disney land do not charge money for their monorail tickets" clearly it is going to be cheap. Still the difference of plane tickets and this new monorail ticket will be extreme. CR3 Speed When I said it would take about 2 days that was an example. I used the Las Vegas monorail and the longest amount of miles through road between Las Angeles and New York city on Google maps. Clearly it is going to be less than two days, depending on the location of both ends and if they use a faster model to do it. My opponent states that we should focus on more important things, something my opponent stated along that is "we must combat global warming" wouldn't a monorail, that does not release any gases, help combat global warming. Therefore my opponent agrees that America should build a monorail to stop people from using cars for large road trips. CR4 Environmentally friendly My opponent agrees with me that a monorail is ecologically safe and thus contradicting his claim on doing more important things rather than build a monorail. Like I said ""In 2011, the Las Vegas Monorail aided in the annual removal of an estimated 2.2 million vehicle miles from Southern Nevada's major roadways, reducing emissions by more than 35 tons of carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) over the course of the year. "[3] Now imagine this but on a larger scale" Las Vegas monorail proves that it helps the environment. Also it says that it removed 2.2 MILLION vehicle miles, and this is a rather small monorail. Therefore it shows that people care about it. Something interesting I found in my opponents marcgunther. com evidence is that it talks about Windex and does not link to my case so it does not prove that people will not use the monorail. I think people will care about something that will allow you to go all the way across the nation for a cheap price. CR5 Convenient This is becoming a debate for whether speed is better than money. Companies that will be at either end of the monorail will chip in to aid in the building of this monorail so price can be eased up. I will also point out that the 50 MPH monorail was for the Las Vegas monorail, but there is and will be better and faster monorails and with extensive research about one thing will help in the construction of something better, building a rocket to go to the moon proves this concept. I would enjoy to keep my hard earned dollars and get to the other side of the nation in a day or around 12 hours than spend hundreds of dollars and get there in about 9 hours. Something my opponent said is that people don't care about the environment but previously my opponent said that we should combat global warming, which shows that my opponent contradicts its self. Tourism helps small companies that have high potential, as previous major companies have proved. CR6 Set up My opponent says that the Las Vegas monorail is not transcontinental, BUT uses the information of the Vegas monorail for points to prove against my case, which shows more contradiction. My opponent says the Alaska is part of America, but in the definition of transcontinental that me and my opponent agreed to only refers from coast to coast of America, so the Alaska argument falls. I agree that it will be bigger than the Las Vegas monorail but the idea to build one is the same, and because my opponent did not attack the process of creating one we both agree that it will be easy to create. Like I said that companies on either end of the tracks will help chip in to make one and the American government which has a lot of money can easily spend the money to make one. CR7 Safety My opponent said that it has the chance to black out, but I said that it would run on solar power and have power reserve to survive through a black out. Like I said that a monorail can not be derailed so if there was a hijacking then the worse they could do is move forward. Unlike a plane that can have engine blow outs, hijacking, crashing into mountains, or running out of fuel in mid flight can lead to certain death. Voters There are many reasons why you should vote for Pro, 1. I used more sources so therefore I should receive sources points, 2. My opponent misspelled words and used more improper grammar than I have so therefore I should get those points, 3. I have done less contradictions than my opponent so therefore I deserve the better conduct points, and 4. I have managed to keep all of my arguments for reasons why American should make a transcontinental monorail and my opponent has not any stated points that have said any kind of disadvantages for if America were to make a transcontinental monorail so for fully following by the rules that me and my opponent to say why America should/should not make a transcontinental monorail I deserve the more persuasive argument points.