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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Announced as a purely private venture....but cost estimates dramatically ballooned. orly

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

But I was told privatization was much more efficient and the government overspends on everything

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

middle-men infested it no doubt

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

They’ve been talking about this shit since I was in high school nearly two decades ago. I always assumed it was never gonna happen

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

:mystery-emote: Texas :solidarity: California

Talking about, but never doing, High Speed Rails

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

We saved you each 17 cents. Now say 'thank you.'

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Now say 'thank you.'

Very rude Texans. jaby-vance

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised it was ever alive

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I'd like to imagine the only trains in Texas are old timey cowboy steam engines

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

the metroplex has the DART, but it needs to be updated badly.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Bring back banditos!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Was Texas high speed rail ever alive?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

sixty million dollars is about a sixteen-thousandth of the trillion dollar annual pentagon budget.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

In the state that probably needs this the utmost.

Amazing.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I can't believe we have to rely on Brightline building private high speed rail in places that are profitable (such as Texas). Deeply embarrassing and worse for the public in the long-term

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

From the thumbnail, I thought that said Sean "Puffy" Combs as secretary of transportation. My brain went "I thought he was in jail? I guess Trump pardoned him and added him to the cabinet."

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