The guy who tweeted it - made it himself. He might as well have written "Travel time at 2,220 mph". It's never going to happen anyway.
The only possible way to get Americans on board high speed rail is for football :amerikkka-clap:
LMAO holy shit
Big 12, Big 10, SEC, PAC,Atlantic....christ
Might as well have just made it in Middle Earth ffs
10 hours on the non-stop LA-Lincoln service. Sounds about as fun as a Sydney-Dubai economy flight.
These paths make no sense whatsoever. It doesn't touch NYC at all, completely misses Philadelphia and Harrisburg, but goes through Penn State? And that's just the region I know well.
The map is clearly a like-grab by the guy that made it. By that metric - it's a big success.
In my impatience I actually did a reverse image search to find the source. I got nowhere and then I finally looked carefully at the map. I laughed at myself when I realized he made the damn thing himself.
I think this goes for a lot of the land-grant universities, but State College is like really out of the way. I've heard some profs will turn down giving talks at Penn State because it's such a pain in the ass to get to.
this is some fucked up perverted shit. i want high speed rail, id support it. but i would also murder the line director or whoever approves a map like this :soviet-huff:
I can't comprehend the mind of someone who draws a fantasy transit map and actually finishes it without getting bogged down in endless details about existing lines, population density, land use/price maps, and elevation maps.
Which I guess explains why all of these maps end up so incomprehensible.
As someone who spends 8 hours a day drawing in the public right of way, it's absolute hell. We have one job that's like 2 miles of cable that needs to cross an existing rail line. We have to send permitting request out to 6 separate private rail operators, 3 county governing bodies, and a state transportation agency. The whole thing has been in permitting and easement hell for over a year now...
The only way anything will get done in this country is through massive land reform and the expropriation of all private transportation and utility infrastructure. Like just look through some plat maps from your city/town one day (most are available online at your local RoD). They're absolute garbage and most haven't been updated for decades.
It's just drafting, there are tons of openings for this sort of work all over the place right now. Check for "utilities engineer" or "utilities permit and design drafter". Starting pay is decent at like $20-$25 and a ton of places are letting you work remote
You will want to rip your hair out doing this sort of work though because you're dealing with the failsons at 3 separate companies all giving different deadlines and doing everything they can to make it so no one who actually does the work can get it done and are constantly changing design specs in ways that require total redesign of like 75 miles of drawings and then they start whining about why it's taking so long.
I’m on the “a few weeks from going into service” side of work like this. Sounds very frustrating, but I like big infrastructure shit. Super interesting
Definitely give it a shot if you can find a place around you that'll take you. It's honestly pretty fun if you're a map nerd or enjoy CAD.
To people who keep freshly joining the thread to justifiably complain about how this map is complete bullshit...
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It's not a real transit map. It's like a map of like college athletic conferences or some shit. It's a shitpost (intentional or not). ___
Did a closed loop kill this guy's family or something? So many irregular horseshoe shaped lines.
Fuck the people who want to get between Tuscon and Boulder I guess.
Aha! Apparently it's a parody of this one: https://dayssincesomeonepostedthemap.com/
High speed rail should go all through North and South America and it all should connect. Eventually it should go trans pacific and Atlantic.
