will do literally anything other than build a fucking train

the Onion already did this one:

Obama Replaces Costly High Speed Rail Plan With High Speed Bus Plan

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Are high speed buses a thing? 225 km/h with presumably rubber tires? Seems like it would be even harder than building tried and true high speed rail.

Also post apocalyptic Australia did it first, they want their desert speeders back and to be witnessed.

It's pathetic, especially so because the busses will not happen either.

Shithole country

I am not getting in a death trap "dragster"-bus lol.

So reading the article it sounds like this is just a catchy headline. They're not seriously looking into building them:

“Despite significant engineering hurdles, it is conceptually feasible to operate buses safely at high speeds under controlled conditions,” the review reads. “However, real-world implementation requires incremental approaches, substantial investments in infrastructure, technology, and rigorous validation through field tests.”

“It might offer as a complementary option alongside existing solutions like rail, not to replace them,” Mehdi Moeinaddini, a senior transportation planner at Caltrans, told KCRA about the high-speed buses."

What happened to Musk’s magic tunnels, or hyperloop? I thought that was going to solve these problems in about five years, ten years ago.

oh, sure, I drive 80mph on the highway and I'm a "criminal speeder" but somehow these buses are safe at nearly twice the speed? ya right

I recommend looking at this map that includes all planned rails in gray.

Look at the one connecting Dalian and Yantai across the Bohai Strait (the one that forms a bay in the Northeast, near the Koreas). That's 120km of underwater tunnel, already in construction, planned to open in 2030

Edit: High res picture

High speed high speed high speed

How about just busses and trains? Just the normal ones, nothing crazy. Just lots and lots of boring busses and trains

That would actually work and improve the situation