Lmao china has more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined. It's too late to catch up
He doesn't want to try. He wants to make a bunch of undeliverable promises in anticipation of pursuing his next gig.
If we are to emulate China’s transportation system, we should look instead at its freeways. Including the interstates and other freeways, the United States has 67,000 freeway miles and is building fewer than 800 new miles a year. China, whose land area is about the same as ours and which has about the same number of motor vehicles as the United States, had 93,000 miles at the end of 2019 and is building 4,000 to 5,000 new miles a year.
Urban freeways are also the safest roads in the country to drive on, while non-freeway arterials are the most dangerous. On top of saving travelers billions of hours a year, replacing non-freeway arterials with freeways could save thousands of lives each year.
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Can't sell people cars, gas, and tires if they have beautiful trains to ride on.
It also doesn't help that those trains are faster, cheaper, easier, and more convenient than cars
Me: you can’t just declare every road a freeway.
Cato institute (points at Driveway): Freeway.
If we make all roads 6 lanes and limit access to all of them there won't be traffic guys.
Urban freeways are also the safest roads in the country to drive on, while non-freeway arterials are the most dangerous.
Thank goodness those don't intersect or anything.
Meanwhile China built the largest high speed rail system in a decade
Mayo Pete aint going to do shit anyway so why even write an article about this, who fucking cares? No railway will be built and the roads will continue to crumble. It's almost like people are expecting americans to like build something instead of just managing a decline while the 1% pilfer.
Mayo Pete aint going to do shit anyway so why even write an article about this, who fucking cares?
Screaming "No, you're doing it wrong! Train bad! Car good!" is the contrary bullshit that literally pays CATO's bills.
Dems: hey let's pretend to maybe almost do something good
Reps: you FUCKING WHAT :angery:
there's actually zero difference between high speed rail and steam locomotives. you imbecile. you fucking moron.
I want to put my bet that Mayo wants to privatize Acela Express and use that to encourage more “private-venture optimizations of America’s locomotive-based human capital high-speed inter-settlement mobility solutions”
I just have to say, Based. Yes, bring back Typewriters. Steam trains are cool as fuck.
christ don’t make me defend mayor pete Cato you sick fucks
CATO's job is to piss on anything remotely liberal and tell you it's your fault for not bringing an umbrella.
Pete's job is to whisper sweet progressive nothings in your ear while he slides the knife into your side and steals your wallet.
Together, they form a power team of disinformation and dysfunction that keeps the bulk of Americans huffing down the blackpill labeled "Better Things Aren't Possible".
