"And by that, I mean privately owned, publicly subsidized rail companies that will be at least as expensive as taking a plane over the same distance."
Oddly enough Biden is a massive public rail advocate. I guess shit people can hold good opinions sometimes
A stopped clock is right twice a day. Biden's clock may even be right more often then that since he can't draw a regular one
It's gonna be at best one line going from LA to Las Vegas and maybe one from NY to Chicago, both run by private companies, the tickets are gonna cost 150 dollars and that's it, they will call it a gargantuan FDR like victory and Pete will be mentioned forever and ever 24/7 while the climate apocalypse destroy everything we love.
And NY to Chicago will get shut down because no private company wants to pay to maintain high speed rail in northeastern+midwestern winters.
One 25-mile rail line that's finished in 2027, is extremely expensive to ride, and has frequent catastrophic derailments. Shut down after 8 months of barely any use.
The line will end up running between two suburbs full of people who in surveys say they'll ride a rail, but actually prefer to drive cars and the commissioned studies for some reason did questionnaires instead of looking at travel habits.
This was one of Toronto's recent subway expansions, they spent billions to build a subway in an area with low bus usage because the residents "wanted it" (the residents being mainly homeowners who read that subways were good for housing prices), instead of taking busy bus lines and building a subway there. Then everyone whined when it took like 15 years for people's habits in the area to shift. Somehow this is always perfectly predictable, and people act the same way every time. Either consider it a long term project, and don't expect people to adapt to a new transit project overnight, or build it around already existing habits.
I want the US to be leading the world in high speed rail but unfortunately we have to put all of the budget in the army to save the future's possibility of being perceived or some shit, here, have some more cars.
Watch the United States build high speed rails but only to oil rich countries to move our troops quicker lul
-7DeadlyFetishes
10? Try 50. The first Shinkansen launched in 1964. In a country that had two nuclear bombs dropped on it only 19 years earlier.
In Europe this triggered a spree of building to stay relevant. In the US we were still letting Robert Moses style development create an ecological nightmare.
Robert Moses should be held up as contender for one of the prime architects of the collapse.
Like how Rome had the lead pipes, America has Robert Fucking Moses.
not if America pulled their heads out of their asses and tried to cooperate with the rest of the world instead of bombing their way to freedom
I never even knew that sub existed until y’all started telling me about them and now it sickens me I’m out here agreeing with them. What is that?
Don’t worry though there’s an exchange in there where someone goes. We need to bully Americans into trains instead of cars. Someone replies no that’s authoritarian and would make me sad and there has to be a compromise between my feelings and the planet killing all of us. So now I hate them again.
They say they're neoliberal yet they aren't dismissing this proposal for potential public spending. Curious.
They'll give the contract to elon musk and we'll get 15 different bullshit renders with nothing actually getting built
Or some hyperloop bullshit that decompresses on day one--exploding everyone inside of it instantly-- because an earthquake caused by fracking cum shifting in the mantle rattled the tube too hard
Billion dollar government contracts? Something involving trains? Oh yeah, it's
G A D G E T B H A N
Time!
