jesus christ this is so embarrasing
the improvements are like 10% of what we would need to have an okay rail system
This is no where near enough to make any meaningful difference. Sure it’s a start, but every town I have lived in (Midwest) has a small, abandoned train station running right through the middle of it.
China built the majority of their sprawling high speed rail network in the last 15 years.
tfw we might (if we're lucky) slightly increase the size of our super slow, dilapidated rail network in 15 years: :kitty-cri:
It’s easy to focus on infrastructure when you haven’t been to war since 1979.
Imperialism doesn't make it harder to build infrastructure, they just don't want to. Their only thing is imperialism.
China has a train and building industry and the US favors airplanes at the expense of everything else. What your seeing is ingrained interests keeping trains down.
Imagine knowing anything about infrastructure of the past 40 years in america and believing for a second that any of this will come to fruition. That's liberalism, baby.
What's wild is that they don't even need to build new infrastructure. All the proposed connections already exist, they just don't want to run trains on them.
Its not even about infrastructure, its about giving money to corporations. All we got in obama's bill was like a few highways.
This is the type of service upgrades we should be seeing every 5 years. This is not enough. I have no idea how we are possibly supposed to cope with climate change without a good rail network.
Wow I wanted to be excited about this but it is honestly really fucking bad. Lmao.
I'm just happy my city is finally getting rail access again.
(Keyword being again)
Can't wrap my mind around why they'd suspend service between Mobile and Jacksonville. I know it's a peninsula and all but you don't have to turn Florida into a complete dead end.
but you don’t have to turn Florida into a complete dead end.
Can't turn it into something it always has been.
It was suspended because of Katrina, but damn, it's been almost 20 years now!
They don't specify how fast the trains will go LMAO
Even in liberal democracies a thing cause "flex time" is a thing. It works on most jobs, just means you can arrive or leave in a time frame instead of "on point". To people saying: Wait a moment, how am I supposed to do that when I am a heavy industrial business? I say: Friends of mine work in one were even 2 minutes of unscheduled downtime on some machines eat up the profits of the week and they are able to do it, so is your company (at least if the workers would have councils and democratically control the company).
Ugh why would they not just connect Louisville to Nashville it would make Great Lakes to Florida so much faster.
Bakersfield to LA, Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, Montgomery to Mobile, Pueblo to La Junta, Rockford to Madison
I know people like dunking on rural areas but SD, WY, and ID really need a line here.
I hate to say it, but I don't expect this to catch on unless they implement high speed railways. Riding Amtrak is miserable in most cases. Slow as fuck with next to no services on the train. Most people who need to travel cross country for cheap take the bus for a reason.
I'd love to publicly berate "Amtrak Joe" for presiding over an international embarrassment that is his planned Amtrak improvements. I think I could get him to try and start a fight with me, or at least witness him using an ethnic slur in regards to high speed rail in East Asia.
