During the beginning of this project the main skill I had to utilize was creative thinking and brainstorming.  Coming up with ideas on what our project should do didn’t prove to be much trouble since we used one of the ideas we previously came up with for the earlier assignment.  So with the remaining time we had we were finding ways to modify our bullet train project so that it seemed more realistic and wasn’t just a copy off someone else’s idea.  Our bullet train would run from NYC to Buffalo, the reason being that the Amtrak is the least attractive mode of transportation to get to Buffalo.  It is slow and very expensive, meaning it is just a better option to avoid it by taking a car.  But the bullet train would provide a faster route with people paying the same price as the Amtrak.  The modifications we made to our bullet train was adding solar panels that would provide more power to the bullet train also making the project more cost effective.  The solar panel became a smart addition to our project because one of the biggest hurdles we had to face was the cost of the project.  When doing our research we noticed that there have actually been a few attempts to make a bullet train in NYC but they all got shut down.  A few main reasons for this was because it would be hard to make a bullet train to replace the mta trains because of all the turns they make consistently, due to the high speeds it would be hard for it.  This is the main reason we picked NYC to Buffalo, the other reason was the cost.  The cost to have a bullet train and the tracks for it built would be very expensive so they decided to abolish the idea.  This project helped use our creative thinking in order to find ways we can really implement it in the real world.  Working together with my peers I learned the importance of communication and responsibility.  In order to find ways to make our project become an effective proposal we came up with ideas together and we decided that it would also be cost effective if we replaced the tracks of the Amtrak with tracks required for the bullet train.

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