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Will A Excessive Pace Rail Community Ever Be Constructed In The U.S.?
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I WANT MORE TRAINS IN MY COUNTRY
All these dumb privatized rail projects. God forbid the federal govt makes an honest investment.
True it takes so long for a project to be done the world may never know
Electric cars also destroy the environment including releasing greenhouse gases through resource mining, manufacturing processes pollutants and ultimately going to the landfill in mass droves. The pollution they cause is simply unnecessary as is the amount of urban space squandered on parking and other paved over autocentric wastes. They also perpetuate urban sprawl, the food deserts that come from that invariably, along with cities that are not navigable as a pedestrian or bicyclist and are, in fact, inhospitable to humanity. They add to traffic congestion. Commodification of societal needs and normalization of trying to substitute rampant consumerism where we need standardized, regulated and uniform public utilities doesn’t work.
Putting the financial burden of transportation inefficiently and directly on the individual citizen is simply not wise or fair and hasn’t been the norm for even 80 years. We need to invest in commuter rail that’s properly implemented as it typically is overseas. A commuter rail system is an engineering marvel while buses are just buses. The most reliable predictor of a neighborhood being impoverished is if it has no commuter rail connection. The American people are apathetic through decades of disenfranchisement and a lot of that marginalization (eg Robert Moses’s racist urban renewal) is through divestment of public infrastructure, utilities and programs to help the American people. We’re past the point of car dominated transportation being anything better than a tragic hindrance or an outright travesty. Public works materially improving life for the taxpaying citizenry will bolster civic pride.
Numerous studies show that built environments of homogenously bleak and bland duplitecture dreck that profiteering developers push on us for their privatized gains to our public loss for the riches of themselves and corporate slumlords not only cause homelessness from being financially inaccessible to most Americans, but also cause depression from creating such a devastatingly sterile, cold, unloving urban habitat that’s too congested and overcrowded to work properly as a correctly engineered built environment. Our roadways are overcrowded and no amount of widening them and adding lanes will do anything to help it because it just leads to induced demand that inevitably grinds to a halt at snags and bottlenecks down the road. Shouldn’t American cities be thriving centers of culture and character rather than austere and chintzy morasses of mediocrity?
I believe that we can design the cities of our nation to reflect a future that embraces humanity and that we also must for America to have any sort of a bright future ahead of it. Right now we are mired in the destruction of our cities from the inward attacking neocolonial oppressors who weaponize their clout of wealth against the nation for their own off-shore un-American gains of privileged, parasitic, private profits. This greed fueled anti-social exploitation is present day feudalism driving us into another gilded age. Tons of new petrochemical building “luxury living” housing units remain empty serving only as financial assets in investment portfolios of hedge fund and permanent capital firm cretins sheltering dubiously acquired wealth instead of as direly needed shelter for humans. We deserve a landscape we can be proud of and country should come first before corporate looting and exploitation. Legacies are important and live on forever.
With space opened up in our cities we could rebuild beloved structures gone from economic and environmental disaster utilizing new technologies such as hempcrete and 3-D printing. We could create vertical farms etc. on spots currently now just serving as paved over squares and nothing more. We can extend democracy into offering the taxpayer residents democratic say in what their city consists of, how it looks and how it operates promoting civic engagement and participation.
Most Americans living today haven’t experienced commuter rail infrastructure that works properly because it’s never funded enough to be designed well due to corrupt influences from big oil and the auto industry who also ruined the excellent streetcar grids and interurban routes we used to have that did work well. Driving is a stressful and inefficient waste of time on top of most people’s already stressful day. Automobiles also have so many costs attached to them. They’re not a sound first option.
What are you talking about?
Driving DOES NOT make sense at all!
We're faaaaaar too highly regulated, self driving cars are just more feasible
The government doesn't own the land that's why. Anyway, Biden is the worst president ever piles of preventable problems & he wants you to forget about those & distract you with this Infrastructure plan.
I think We need:
1. West coast HSR from Vancouver BC Canada to San Diego CA.
2. Midwest HSR from Chicago to Huston.
3. East coast HSR from Montreal Qb Canada to Miami FL.
And that’s just start, from then on, there is potential to expand from these locations to elsewhere, such as Seattle to Billing Montana and then to Denver Colorado before back to Chicago!!
And from Chicago to Detroit to Columbus Ohio to Cincinnati and to NYC.
People should stop comparing this idea to Japan or Europe. Those have the same amount of land as mere states in the U.S so that's not a fair comparison. The real issue is the cost of building these tracks and trains across huge terrains as well as getting people on board with the idea since the U.S became so car centric from decades ago.
just build behind interstate or highway. simple.
The thing is, in order for it to be reliable, it has to overall be FASTER than driving a car to get there. If it isn't fast enough, then it won't be a reliable source of transportation and people will still just drive.
This is how you get speed rail in the United States
Do you know that the Soviets have speed rail and you're telling us that we cannot even build a a speed rail station
the only reason we can't build any high-speed rail is that we don't have the money. Also for a matter of fact, the trains over there stretch for miles and mostly farm land out there where we have mountains and all such and such so it would be more difficult and we don't really get knew track that often or mostly ever really like what they do and it also has to do with infrastructure.
we should build HS only for the profitable lines.
We may not have many of the fancy things other first world countries have like hi speed train and universal health care but we have the best army by a country mile!! That's what matters cuz FREEDOM!!!!! USA USA USAAAAA
One was already built by BECHTEL IN THE 1970’s and has been extended to DENVER AIRPORT AND ONTO WASHINGTON DC……OAKRIDGE HAS 1 GOING TO WRIGHT PATTERSON AND WASHINGTON DC…
Shame! Way, way too slow.
As a Chinese Indonesian, I'm all too glad that my adopted country (Indonesia) decides to build a high speed train under a full support of my motherland (China). Had it been silly enough to follow US development model and its so-called democracy, its dream of operating such an advanced technology wouldn't even have come to a fruition.
Perhaps, that Californian Governor can learn to be pragmatic enough and learn from a democratic AND "supposedly" poor country like Indonesia on how to build such infrastructure..? Lol
High speed rail would transform our infrastructure. A country the size of the U.S. would benefit tremendously with less use for airlines (who I'm going to speculate also lobby against this). I hope it happens in our lifetime but I won't hold my breath
I live in France, one of those wonderful country’s that have high speed rail and yet EVERYONE still goes to the airport! Unless if you live in a big city your screwed and more often than not SNCF employees are on strike so why even bother! I’ve lived in Europe for many years and have never taken high speed rail and don’t know of anyone else who does either, most trains are empty and it’s costs are passed on to the tax payers! And. It only that it’s often cheaper to fly than taking TGV and for those who must be on time taking the train comes at a huge risk many do not wish to make! Many of us myself included would make SNCF a private company if we could so that our taxes aren’t wasted anymore on these trains no one asked for and no one other than socialists and the elite care about!
Much of what is said on American media concerning trains in Europe is propaganda! Come to Europe, especially France and see for yourself that not only is high speed rail very expensive it’s also not convenient and you might not even get on the train to begin with if SNCF employees decide for the millionth time they want even more money to be useless!
Nope.
Long version: It will take a dedicated amount of consciousness in Americans to find simple ideas instead of complex ideas for not-so-complex issue.
Americans: we can't make a high-speed rail it's too big and very expensive
Russia: hold my vodka
Only after you add liability shields to rail network expansion and stop taxing railroads
Build highspeed rail and get rid of the interstate
The US has a third world rail network.
Actions not words. The best push for US hsr is China.
This hold Operation, (High Speed Rails) should be Headed by the U S Government .
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Endless wars?! We have endless money….. Getting people from city to city and actually making the country modern and useful? NAH WE CANT AFFORD THAAAAT…….
Not possible anymore, with all the diversity hire, anti racism training, we are on Civilization decline.