cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14304523
President Joe Biden is reportedly seeking to revive a project that would construct a high-speed railway from Houston to Dallas in Texas utilizing Japanese bullet trains.
According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing unnamed administration sources, the White House is looking to make an announcement on the project following talks between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., this week.
The Japanese government and the White House declined to comment on the report, though the project has seen renewed support from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told KXAS in Fort Worth on Sunday: "We believe in this."
Unironically would play on that shit if I were supreme dictator of US or Texas or whatever. Anything it takes to get some fucking infrastructure built (sorta).
The routes will just be named after guns. Line AR-15 to the airport. Line G-19 to Dallas. Line M16 is closed for maintenance
Wasn't this project initially going to be done by a private company and then it got taken to court by the farmers along the route because it intended to use eminent domain, but only railroads and the government have that power. The farmers argued that, since the company didn't run any trains, they weren't a railroad. I believe they won and the project was killed.
Why the feds keep trying to build HSR in states with Republicans in power is beyond me. Obama tried this in Wisconsin and it crashed and burned. They won't take the money and they hate trains.
Hell, it was poised to work in Wisconsin and everything. We even had the trains paid for and then Scott Walker just... cancelled it.
Amtrak might be picking it up and they are a RR company.
That's what happened in Wisconsin, too. Scott Walker gave all the money back and the trains now run in Lagos.
As metro trains, I might add. Metros are great but Talgos are the wrong rolling stock. It will be the first metro in the world to run tilting trains I believe.
If project fails, they can throw their hands up and say they tried and the dumb poor hicks are the reason we can’t have good things and there’s no reason to try anymore and instead buy more fighter jets
If project succeeds, they can throw their hands up in celebration and say America does it best and our government is so good that it’s able to reach across the aisle and convince even the dumb poor hicks to get on board
First of all
, they'll probaby embezzle all the money and have nothing to shie for it 10 years from now - if it even gets that far.But second, Houston to Dallas? Who wants that? Most people in Houston would rather build a wall around Dallas to keep them out
Houston to Dallas? Who wants that?
so quite a few people apparently.
Yeah but a lot of those busiest ones are already covered by the Northeast Corridor for trains
I get it. I used to live in Houston and its kind of a joke about how much people in Houston hate Dallas and people from there
But second, Houston to Dallas? Who wants that? Most people in Houston would rather build a wall around Dallas to keep them out
The people who commute regularly between them. Planes are expensive and TSA makes it more time consuming.
fair, but some parts of the city look nice
I can't forgive running light rail every 20 minutes though
The only way Texas is going to get a bullet train is if Trump - for whatever reason - suddenly starts saying all the time how much he loves bullet trains. I think the chance of that happening is about 1 in 1,000,000.
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"Brad Pitt is a liberal." Boos and some hissing. "But wait. There's a Brad Pitt bullet train movie called Bullet Train." Mild confused booing. "I liked it. I liked it. And I thought - why doesn't America have a single mile of bullet train? Why?" Somebody yells out "Yeah, why!" And Trump gets serious "See? When I win president for the third time - I want bullet trains. Cars best. It's true. It's true. Very best. Everybody loves cars. But I want lots and lots of bullet trains..."
Quick, someone get him a copy of the movie Bullet Train but label it Bloodsport
Or Bloodsport and label it Bullet Train. Either one will work, really; the man's brains are tapioca pudding laced with German Sudafed and Twitter clapbacks at this point.
Or any of his favorite movies: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/donald-trumps-favorite-movies/
Totally normal list of movies made by a human person who definitely watches movies and is not actually a reptile in a mammalian skinsuit.
It’s possible that if he meets with Kim Jong Un again, he can redpill Trump on trains and he comes back to America wanting to build the best trains.
If it ever had the chance of happening it would be good since Texas has some of the fastest growing areas in the country. Ultimately it probably won’t get built.
the only good things about joe biden and pete buttigieg: they like trains.
if we can light up an auditorium, we can build a bullet trainThis fits the dems playbook perfectly. You promise something you know you can't deliver on. Then you put a high profile person in position of power to make it seem like you are serious about fixing said problem. don't do anything your whole term, probably make it worse and then when it comes time for election season make a grandiose promise that you also won't keep if you get re elected, but hey it sounds good right?
"Governor, we would like $20 billion for a bullet-"
"SAY NO MOREN YEEEEEE HAWWWWWW" firing guns into air
put the expensive new train in Texas of all states
train fails because it's not a truck with nuts on it
"You just can't do trains in America, guys."
