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tweet by amtrak ben: i think we should build high speed rail next to freeways only because it would make drivers feel like complete losers all the time

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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Also, in the US this could help bypass land-use issues. If you use the right-of-way the interstate highways already have, you don’t need to have a legal fight over building on privately held land.

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        1 year ago

        You should read about the efforts to build fast rail in California. It was totally destroyed because they had to ask permission to each and every tiny county and make so many compromises, that it’s no longer considered high speed rail.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I figured it would be different in different countries. I live in Texas, where a promised high-speed line between Dallas and Houston has been stalled by landowners telling the state to fuck off. If they had asked the Obama administration to let them use the interstates, it would probably be in construction already.