If only the US joined the bandwagon.

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I want motherfucking trains too.

I wish we were more like the rest of the civilized world.
 
The country needs autobahns.

Make people pay for it so poor fucks in Kias who go 100mph can't go on it.
 
Years ago, putting in a high speed rail between Houston -> Dallas -> Austin -> San Antonio -> Houston was talked about but never materialized.

Well, that and a super collider.
 
maybe we should enslave all of these illegal mexicans to build our infrastructure...I hear enslaving blacks isn't quite right these days
 
actually yes, the east coast could probably support and utilize high speed rail
hypothetically...anyway
 
I looked into taking a train from kansas city to st. louis and they wanted 200 bucks for a roundtrip ticket and said it was going to take 6 hours each way.

I can drive there in 4, and only pay like 130ish for gas and I drive a diesel truck.
 
in the early 1900s, absolutely. Rail didn't decline until after cars became commonplace
 
because that had nothing to do with the fact that cars were better than trains....

The government didn't fuck over the railroads
 
Dont know about better, the airline industry is one the worst service industries in america. From a safety stand point high speed rail has better record, heck the TGV has operated 30+ years without a single fatality, all while averaging 280+mph.

Also China has high speed rail, and it too is pretty big country.
 
everything....

HSR is only useful for 100-500 mile trip ranges.

not to mention there are other transportation infrastructure priorities which are all underfunded btw.
 
Continental US is about 3mil square miles, china is 3.6 mil square miles, granted they have a much larger popuplation. But most of our 400mil are on the coasts.
 
no one would use it for LA>NYC (except people with irrational fear of flying). It's meant to connect cities in the same region (like SF to LA and everywhere in between).

There's also a proposal for HSR in the midwest, making Milwaukee>Chicago a 40 minute commute.
 
would love to see their proposals for how to handle the expanding, contracting and warping of the upper rails due to temperature fluctuations
 
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