Message from @Ed Money
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@Stefan Payne Maybe we need controlled demolition. Let her deepthroat her foot a little more.
An exhale of air in a half-laugh.
... I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but I think I appreciate the sentiment?
how do you kill a harmless animal for political reasons and sleep like a baby afterwards
Wait, someone murdered RBG?
oh yeah isn't she in the lego movie 2
These people know nothing of rail
Particularly north American rail.
They fail to mention that in places like China, their high speed rail barely makes a profit. In fact one runs at a deficient (most likely to try and bring a rebellious part of the country "closer" to the rest of China). Also they shake off the cost of rail for American being "too big" but that is a very important problem. We are spread out, big time. Italy, their other cited place? Whats the size of that compared to most states and what is the population density.
That Cali rail project? The guy who originally proposed it is now fighting it because law makers changed the deal and now it will most likely need government subsedies to function.
Thunderf00t is right.
The Hyperloop will tank for similar reasons.
it would depend on the maintenance cost of the loop itself
thats what causes the problem with america being too big
not enough passengers per foot of rail
its also why freight is still profitable.
1) creating and installing that much rail to make it a viable alternative to flight with be an environmental disaster
2) fast air travel is important not for just people on vacation and overnight shipping but also things like delivering organ transplants, disaster recovery and medical flights
pretty sure air travel, ironically enough, ends up being safer.
but that really comes down to how much time and money is spent on maintenance in both cases
3) The amount of money they would spend on creating that much railway infrastructure could be used to research ways to make air travel "carbon neutral"
hell, with that amount of money you could probably invent teleporters!
4) it would require the government to seize massive amounts of private property
How about japan
Does high speed rails make money there
which even if you don't have any moral qualms with this it generates endless lawsuits, challenges and delays
just look at how well the oil pipeline is going with all the protests and challenges, now imagine that with tens of thousands of miles of railway
don't need to imagine, look at the cali and texas ones
or any number of rail networks in europe
hell in i think france, they intentionally went around the edges of farmland because it was cheaper an easier to make the rail longer than try and fight the farmers
and Europe has the advantage of lots of existing rail already in place
trying to create what Europe has now plus a lot more, yikes!
put the money in warp drive and teleporters, probably cheaper, faster and more likely to succeed!
socialists aren't know for wanting to invest in the future
Japan is tiny and dense, it does not need the scale the US would need
really its the population density that is the problem