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AdvertisingFree4150 t1_iwf6xyo wrote

Reply to comment by finedrive in The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day by rchaudhary

lol that would be congress. we should have speed rails but instead were told car and planes are whats best while both congress and companies do nothing about global warming.

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finedrive t1_iwf78d6 wrote

Lol you’re telling me, check out the Hawaii rail system

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LibertyLizard t1_iwfimfq wrote

Hawaii? Is this a joke?

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finedrive t1_iwfiqr9 wrote

Nah, check it out

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LibertyLizard t1_iwfiuvm wrote

I did. It’s more of a Honolulu rail system. I was imagining inter-island rail lol.

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finedrive t1_iwfjsdx wrote

Oh, ya good luck with that. The current rail system is a complete joke. It’s under federal investigation lol

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PoorPDOP86 t1_iwgt108 wrote

No, that would be practicality. The maps of where high speed rail lines are proposed reads like someone just looked at a map and went "Oh that looks short enough let's do that". Meanwhile they have these lines going through places where there's four tunnels and you can't exceed 75 MPH on the highway due to the sharpness of the turns. That's not feasible for a train that's supposed to go 150 plus.

There's a reason long-range passenger rail died in the US. Why go through something you can go over?

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knowledgebass t1_iwh81ea wrote

You do realize that in the era before planes and automobiles there was a well-functioning and world-class passenger rail service that went to every major city in the country right? And that was in the 1800's and early 1900's so we could make it work now if we really wanted to but we are collectively addicted to cars.

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AdvertisingFree4150 t1_iwgtjnf wrote

it died so the rich can keep making us pay a shit ton to travel. public transport has been dying since ford came out with cars and they started sabotaging it. even musk takes credit for fucking up the one they were going to build in ca. lol they have inanimate domain to build things like a rail system in america. they did it for all our roads.

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JaFFsTer t1_iwgnhp9 wrote

High speed rail is really not gunna work in the us. Too sparsely populated in the middle of the country to be profitable and air travel is quite cost efficient.

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Cynical_Cabinet t1_iwh5fop wrote

The coasts are more than dense enough to support high speed rail. You don't have to connect Butfuck Iowa with the high speed rail system. Connect the busiest routes first, then expand the network from there ad necessary. ACELA should go down the entire east coast.

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AdvertisingFree4150 t1_iwgol2t wrote

we dont even take pay for fuel and what its going to cost future generations and what it will cost us in the coming decade with 1/3 less water which we need in the Midwest to make the land livable. how much do you think it will cost us to wipe out farm land and turn it into desert? if government is too corrupt and the people are too dumb and the billionaires are too selfish.

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