• shitstorm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map is worth a thousand pictures.

  • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    At least where I'm at the rail lines were turned into bike trails that you use to commute from the suburbs into the city or around the city. Or travel to different parts of the state even. Or for exercise of course. I mean it's something right?

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      "Right? RIGHT?! TELL ME THINGS WILL BE OKAY"

      • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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        4 years ago

        More like I leave it open in case I'm wrong and someone can easily correct me and I can avoid confrontation lololol I enjoy the rail trails though, I can ride all over the place without dealing with c*rs. I just didn't know if I was being a lib

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          I guess some rails really got to go and luckly they are converted into looong parks. My dream is for the intracity trains near my house to be transformed into subways and the rails become a big long park.

    • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Same where I'm from. They're not bad, in fact the few by where I grew up are pretty nice biking and hiking. But say, maybe instead they put electric light rail up instead, suddenly I could commute around the metro area significantly easier 🤷‍♀️

      • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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        4 years ago

        That's what they're doing by me actually and keeping the bike trail. Best part is that it pissed off the suburbs because of muh crime statistics

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Turning old rail lines into hike and bike trails is marginally better than turning them into fucking tollways (Westpark Tollway, eat my ass).

      But it's just another shade of liberalism's "Better Things Aren't Profitable".

  • dolphinhuffer [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Almost as if the building of the railroads themselves was a vast ponzi scheme designed to enrich capitalists. :soviet-hmm:

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Hey I didn't knew that, wjere can I read more about it?

      • Kodak_Red [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I’m not entirely sure if it has to do anything with this map but there were railroad tycoons back in the 1800s

      • dolphinhuffer [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's not a specialty of mine, but in the same way that a lot of specific financial instruments were invented in Italy in the 1400-1600s, a lot about what we understand and experience as Capitalism in America goes very much back to the railroads. Hopefully #Traingang can drop some more recent book recommends.

  • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    We definitely need more trains but these are good hiking trails now, especially the Hiawatha in Montana