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The rest of the world is building subways like crazy. The U.S. has pretty much given up (www.fastcompany.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean duh, We, the US, are a gold plated shithole.

Our tiny, merciless, exploitative, sociopathic oligarch class just skew the numbers.

This place fucking sucks. Always has. Even the supposed "good" times were held up by an explicit, abused underclass. People that take pride in this fucking place are strange to me. Then again I'm against self-delusion in the name of positive feels. 🤷

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Many of our subway-worthy cities are coastal. As sea levels rise they can either have flooded subways or attempt to build massive levees to hold the ocean back and skip the subways.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What a lame excuse. Lots of coastal cities with subways elsewhere

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The point is to install a new subway. Would you install a subway with the expectation that massive earthworks be installed to protect said cities and otherwise flooded subways?

[-] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago

What happened to this? 😩 Turned out to be more empty promises, as expected https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-billions-to-deliver-world-class-high-speed-rail-and-launch-new-passenger-rail-corridors-across-the-country/

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