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First he purged rightist employees (even his friends) working at Current Affairs to consolidate an editorial line under his leadership, now he reposts in support of Dengist developmentalism.
The libertarian socialist to Leninist pipeline is real.
The entire US is also basically at zero for HSR.
There are a few snippets on the page that are like this.
Lmfao. The EU and China define it as >155 mph
By comparison, the Shinkansen has a regular operating speed of 200 mph/322 kmh
And it's more than 60 years old.
I'd love to know typical 1960s and 1970s and 1980s predictions about when the US would have ~500 km of HSR. Could the US will get there by '64? 2164 I mean. I think I'm being way too optimistic for Hexbear.
I don't think the USA will ever have a significant amount of high speed rail. Firstly because of how dispersed the population is - HSR is uncommonly effective in Japan because the geography supports is, you can have just a few long main lines to get to most places. America would be a much taller order. More importantly though because the people calling the shots are wealthy assholes who can just hop on their chopper/jet, why would they bother with high speed rail?
Tired, terrible arguments. You should educate yourself more on this issue.
There are plenty of places in the US that high speed rail would make sense. Even in places you wouldn't expect it. A bunch of regional airports pretty much just shuttle to nearby hubs and would be way more convenient for people if it was just a train. Take CLT to GSP or GSO. SBA to LAS. High speed rail would make a lot of sense there even if they're low density suburbs like the first example.
At least in fantasy land where it doesn't cost $1T worth of graft to build anything in this godforsaken country
Morocco has more HSR than the entire US. It took them 6 years to build 220 miles of track (2012-2018). CA HSR construction began in 2015 and not a single sleeper has been laid, to say nothing of track.
If California were to exist billions of years from now - when the sun goes ~~nova~~ red giant - the democrats will say they have a "proposal to start work to make high-speed rail a reality". But not quite yet. First - they need to form a committee to...
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Guess who benefits most from that particular stretch of actual speed? The ~~professional liars~~ politicians in Washington, to no surprise.
That's because politicians prefer lines of coke to lines of speed.