High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.
Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.
I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.
Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.
Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
Hey dumb faggot. <300 miles is perfect for high speed rail. </p>
Yes and the East coast is set up for that. But West coast is too Spread out. Albuquerque is lame unless you live right next to the a station and need to go right next to a station. It takes to long when you can just drive. I've made that commute a couple hundred times in the last 10 years.
How true (at least that part) and most vagrants/homeless do go right next to a station
High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.
Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.
I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.
Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.
Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.
Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.
I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.
Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.
Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
I've ridden the Railrunner between ABQ and SF a couple times while on a family vacations. Seems like it had good ridership when we were on it. The bathrooms smelled like the 4th Ave Taco Bell bathrooms though. Holy moses it was nasty.
High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.
Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.
I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.
Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.
Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
Portland’s light rail is shit.
HTH.
Why am I not surprised you are too dumb to use it.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.
Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.
I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.
Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.
Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
Portland’s light rail is shit.
HTH.
Why am I not surprised you are too dumb to use it.
I wouldn’t be caught dead on it. (See what I did there?) Crime ridden. Full of meth heads, homeless and people who can’t afford to drive. Right in your wheelhouse. Not surprised you think it’s “sweet”
Also out west people are resistant to mass transportation. We still like our horse and the open range. So Cal alone is so spread out. We work Bakersfield to Mexico and LA to Palm Desert. Saddle up
Also out west people are resistant to mass transportation. We still like our horse and the open range. So Cal alone is so spread out. We work Bakersfield to Mexico and LA to Palm Desert. Saddle up
Horses fart so they'll all be killed for the new green deal
Also out west people are resistant to mass transportation. We still like our horse and the open range. So Cal alone is so spread out. We work Bakersfield to Mexico and LA to Palm Desert. Saddle up
The article DDJ gave lays it out pretty well. I think as we continue to see the move to more town square type development over the next 20 years we'll see more local fixed rail transit.
That seems to be catching on much better than politicians and sports teams trying to artificially create downtowns.
The other issues make longer distance high speed rail much more difficult.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
He omits an extremely important part of his third bullet point on Property Rights: local veto power. It isn't just property issues and eminent domain, but also every local in this country with an axe to grind can sue to hold up development of just about any large public works project. As for the high-speed rail, just the issue of which route from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, through San Jose or along the 580 corridor, came up for argument. Then, some folks in San Jose didn't like the artistic drawings of fucking overpass bridges going through the South Bay, so they sued to force the rail authority to design an overpass bridge that they liked instead. Makes it exceedingly difficult to build anything big anymore - the process gets drawn out and goes way overbudget because it's so easy to pursue legal action.
Did a bit of work in grad school on why some countries like France and Japan have robust nuclear facilities and infrastructure and the US doesn't, and the big reason was local veto power and nimbyism is much stronger in the US than elsewhere; in other countries, the govt. makes a decision and says we're building it, you can complain all you want, but in five years you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
He omits an extremely important part of his third bullet point on Property Rights: local veto power. It isn't just property issues and eminent domain, but also every local in this country with an axe to grind can sue to hold up development of just about any large public works project. As for the high-speed rail, just the issue of which route from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, through San Jose or along the 580 corridor, came up for argument. Then, some folks in San Jose didn't like the artistic drawings of fucking overpass bridges going through the South Bay, so they sued to force the rail authority to design an overpass bridge that they liked instead. Makes it exceedingly difficult to build anything big anymore - the process gets drawn out and goes way overbudget because it's so easy to pursue legal action.
Did a bit of work in grad school on why some countries like France and Japan have robust nuclear facilities and infrastructure and the US doesn't, and the big reason was local veto power and nimbyism is much stronger in the US than elsewhere; in other countries, the govt. makes a decision and says we're building it, you can complain all you want, but in five years you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
And here I thought we had an overbearing intrusive Government.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
He omits an extremely important part of his third bullet point on Property Rights: local veto power. It isn't just property issues and eminent domain, but also every local in this country with an axe to grind can sue to hold up development of just about any large public works project. As for the high-speed rail, just the issue of which route from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, through San Jose or along the 580 corridor, came up for argument. Then, some folks in San Jose didn't like the artistic drawings of fucking overpass bridges going through the South Bay, so they sued to force the rail authority to design an overpass bridge that they liked instead. Makes it exceedingly difficult to build anything big anymore - the process gets drawn out and goes way overbudget because it's so easy to pursue legal action.
Did a bit of work in grad school on why some countries like France and Japan have robust nuclear facilities and infrastructure and the US doesn't, and the big reason was local veto power and nimbyism is much stronger in the US than elsewhere; in other countries, the govt. makes a decision and says we're building it, you can complain all you want, but in five years you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
And here I thought we had an overbearing intrusive Government.
It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.
He omits an extremely important part of his third bullet point on Property Rights: local veto power. It isn't just property issues and eminent domain, but also every local in this country with an axe to grind can sue to hold up development of just about any large public works project. As for the high-speed rail, just the issue of which route from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, through San Jose or along the 580 corridor, came up for argument. Then, some folks in San Jose didn't like the artistic drawings of fucking overpass bridges going through the South Bay, so they sued to force the rail authority to design an overpass bridge that they liked instead. Makes it exceedingly difficult to build anything big anymore - the process gets drawn out and goes way overbudget because it's so easy to pursue legal action.
Did a bit of work in grad school on why some countries like France and Japan have robust nuclear facilities and infrastructure and the US doesn't, and the big reason was local veto power and nimbyism is much stronger in the US than elsewhere; in other countries, the govt. makes a decision and says we're building it, you can complain all you want, but in five years you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
And here I thought we had an overbearing intrusive Government.
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Build walls at WA's Northern and Southern Borders.
Fuck Liberal Portland and Double-Fuck Uber-Liberal Vancouver, BC.
HTH.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/11/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-high-speed-bullet-trains-like-europe-and-asia/#329a89fbc080
We are letting it rust in the front yard at the moment but still
Rebuilding infrastructure is another thing we've talked about for decades
And done very little of
I think as we continue to see the move to more town square type development over the next 20 years we'll see more local fixed rail transit.
That seems to be catching on much better than politicians and sports teams trying to artificially create downtowns.
The other issues make longer distance high speed rail much more difficult.
Did a bit of work in grad school on why some countries like France and Japan have robust nuclear facilities and infrastructure and the US doesn't, and the big reason was local veto power and nimbyism is much stronger in the US than elsewhere; in other countries, the govt. makes a decision and says we're building it, you can complain all you want, but in five years you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.