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Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt. -
You cited Portland's light rail as an example that works.AZDuck said:
Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt.
Take your L and move on. -
Your mom never thought her Son was special. I hope she loved you anyway.
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I stand by that. MAX and Streetcar have 140,000 boardings/day. 4th highest light rail ridership in North America, in the 33rd biggest metro area.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
You cited Portland's light rail as an example that works.AZDuck said:
Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt.
Take your L and move on.
I didn't have to own a car in Portland 20 years ago, it's probably better now -
I kinda dig trails for intra-MSA transportation and can deal with begrudgingly cope with the operational subsidies. It's stuff like large-scale eminent domain, clusterfuck construction, and political chinfluence of design that screw these up from the start.
Aside from the population density point above, one thing oft overlooked when trying to applying other countries solutions to the US is cultural/national/racial homogeneity. Germany remain mostly German, Swiss in Switzerland, etc. It makes a difference.
TL;DR - the Turks need maor tim. -
Moving the goalposts again, I see.
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America is different. HTH.AZDuck said:
Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt. -
It's ok when the temperature is between 40 and 80 degrees and it's not raining too heavily...and you have hours to kill going back and forth to work...and you live and work near the lines.AZDuck said:
I stand by that. MAX and Streetcar have 140,000 boardings/day. 4th highest light rail ridership in North America, in the 33rd biggest metro area.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
You cited Portland's light rail as an example that works.AZDuck said:
Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt.
Take your L and move on.
I didn't have to own a car in Portland 20 years ago, it's probably better now -
America is pretty stupid in almost all dealing. EVERYTHING has to turn a profit, but it can't just turn a profit, it has to turn a profit for the right people.GrundleStiltzkin said:
America is different. HTH.AZDuck said:
Right. It's just emotional thinking moving millions of people in countries all over the world (outside of North America).doogie said:High speed rail fare from Cle Elum to Seattle, heavily subsidized, would cost far more then what the little people this "solution" is sold to, would be willing to pay.
Rail as a "solution" toward moving people, is a circle jerk for emotional thinkers.
America is somehow different. No matter if everyone else in the world has figured out a reasonable solution to a problem (transportation, health care coverage, what have you)
IT WON'T WORK HERE BECAUSE REASONS WE'RE DIFFERENT FUCK OFF
Every mother thinks her son is exceptional. If the son believes it too, he's in for a world of hurt.
Everyone will clap at a new battleship that floats around and does nothing, but something that would increase the general welfare of a populous is viewed as communist garbage. It's stupid and you can't fix that. -
You know that Switzerland is split among the three main Euro ethnicities (German, French, Italian) right? That and over a quarter of the population there isn't even Swiss, but has the Swiss version of a green card?GrundleStiltzkin said:I kinda dig trails for intra-MSA transportation and can deal with begrudgingly cope with the operational subsidies. It's stuff like large-scale eminent domain, clusterfuck construction, and political chinfluence of design that screw these up from the start.
Aside from the population density point above, one thing oft overlooked when trying to applying other countries solutions to the US is cultural/national/racial homogeneity. Germany remain mostly German, Swiss in Switzerland, etc. It makes a difference.
TL;DR - the Turks need maor tim.
I don't think that having different ethnic groups makes rail transportation not work. London's a helluva lot more diverse than Seattle or Portland.
