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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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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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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.