Yes, better than in France and Germany. That's the US train service.

Definitely. Also, China does not exist.

    • CommieElon [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Um excuse me, California has been building high speed rail the last twenty years and it’s billions over budget. They haven’t finished one segment but it’s on its way.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        OK I will defend the CA HSR. It's taking comically long (was approved in 2009, won't be done until like 2035) but it will actually get done; it's not total vaporware. The part through the Central Valley is nearly done and should be up and running soon IIRC.

      • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        My hunch is that California dems are just extremely reluctant they have to follow through on this, so they are trying almost every poison pill under the sun to try to get people to cancel it.

        In about 5 years, they will be explicitly begging voters to make them stop.

        • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah a lot of the state representatives from LA or SF wanted to cancel this to focus on local transit in this areas. I think that's how we got this compromise where they only started construction in the Central Valley

    • Vampire [any]
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      2 years ago

      Wait so their trains run on coal or something?

          • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            "U.S. railroad companies chose to switch to diesel over electric locomotives because of diesel's much lower up-front costs, even though electric systems cost significantly less to operate and to maintain than diesel systems." :porky-happy: