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prior to the clear political divides happening post-2016 I wouldn't have said so
@evannthegreat1 you're not, but there is also a lot of people who don't see it that way.
IIRC, the state’s have been called the “laboratories” of democracy...a place to test these sort of things out. California is ready to test ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that involves spending other people’s money
They have done a bang up job on testing “high speed rail”...building a high speed train that goes nowhere important
be fair, california is home to hollywood, so really most of that "other people's money" has been movie sales
not recently, but still
They got plenty of Obama money for that high speed rail project and it has not delivered on the benchmarks that were requirements for those grants
IIRC, it as supposed to run from LA to San Francisco. And it will end up doing neither.
it'd be nice if we had something on par with japanese high speed rail
I don’t think I’d ever want to live in Cali, the whole vibe just throws me off
Like I’m a liberal dude
@Jokerfaic The US could really use a high speed rail network, to bad your government is too incompetent.
but by the nature of japanese bureacracy, I suppose it makes sense why they got it so fast
Japan is a compact country. High speed is cost effective there. Not so much in the US...maybe for the Northeast corridor from DC to NYC but not in many other places
well what about a continental rail? coast to coast
Too expensive for high speed, too far apart when you can fly that distance much faster for the same or lower cost
I think they determined that even with a LA to SF high speed line you could cover the distance faster by air and for the same or lower cost
And that included the times passing through TSA checkpoints
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the government bulldozed all its tv dishes, why the fuck would they tolerate phone braodcast
Distance from NYC to LA I’d over 2400 miles as the crow flies. At 200 mph it would still take over 12 hours by high speed rail
The thot is taunting us...
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I was thinking seattle to DC, but ok
I just picked the two largest cities, point to point
The 2400 was perfectly direct, not factoring in Geographical reasons that would require curves, bypasses/detours of some places, etc.
The distance by road between NYC and LA is over 2700 miles....more realistic for a rail route than a perfectly straight line
oh well, might have at least been a nice public works project
like the first continental rails
Brandon, that is like the people that decided to bicycle through the ‘stans’ to demonstrate peace and love of their fellow humans. They were intentionally run over by some Muslims.
The yourtubers will get off easy if they were only arrested
it's still a six hour flight from NY to LA, 12 hours on rail isn't that much worse
@Jokerfaic I know it's Shapiro, but it has link to the Clip
My time estimate was at 200 mph, with no stops between. Doubt we could do a consistent 200 mph route from coast to coast
[shapiro rag site immediately put up screen-filling ad for the cayman 'tax haven' islands]
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A 6 hour flight realistically takes 8-10 hours including boarding times, and that's an entire day gone.
Even if it was 24 hours, with the increased movement space you get with rail it would still be more attractive offer to many people.
Do you think that a coast to coast H.S. rail line can be run profitably (or even break even)? Unless I am mistaken the only portion of Amtrak that shows a profit is the Northeast corridor. Could you do a coast to coast trip at the same or less than an airline ticket for the same trip?