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Tuxedo Gin posted:Hell, we're even doing highway expansions like that. Heavily congested commute routes getting toll express lanes added and managed by for profit companies that take the majority of the profits (just like traffic camera management companies). Yeah, highways are actually profitable.
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Node posted:A second train has hit the tower
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May 27, 2016 23:13
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no room no demand no money also the fastest trains in USA still share tracks with freight trains going 10mph its prob the most unfortunate thing about not being bombed during WW2 and getting to start over with cool 20th century stuff
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May 27, 2016 23:21
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Mariana Horchata posted:no room no demand no money so in a way you're saying hitler was right
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Faster stuff = more safety needed. More safety needed = more regulations and laws. More regulations and laws = more opposition from batshit 'no Big gubment free market guns' Republicans This is why mostly, only when it's ok to allow a few hundred to die every now and again with no liability then you will get your faster trains.
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May 27, 2016 23:47
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Gaunab posted:so in a way you're saying hitler was right nah mussolini had the trains, and hitler was a car guy who built the autobahn and the people's wagen
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May 27, 2016 23:52
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only when elon musk makes us its called the hypernoob tube
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May 27, 2016 23:56
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numberoneposter posted:only when elon musk makes us Hypernoob will never work because all the plans show cramped seating with no bathrooms. Maybe if every seat is also a toilet...
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Zarimus posted:Hypernoob will never work because all the plans show cramped seating with no bathrooms. numberoneposter fucked around with this message at 00:08 on May 28, 2016 |
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May 28, 2016 00:05
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Someone get Peter Thiel to fund a maglev project
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May 28, 2016 00:07
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your mom embraces high speed traisn
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America doesn't really like trannies all that much, they are kinda gross. Shemales moving quickly is too big of a pill to swallow for most of us. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Serious answer: with changing demographics, a steadily increasing price of oil, and a gradual improvement in technology. Changing demographics is pretty self-explanatory. The millennial generation on the whole doesn't want to live in the suburbs, and has smaller families. This isn't just a temporary change. As this becomes more of the norm, and housing prices are transformed, commuting by rail will make more sense. My own guess is that since cities are being priced upwards, millenials will start moving into smaller towns, urbanizing them, and wanting faster rail. For example, a lot of towns in San Francisco's central valley might be filled with people who want to work in the Bay Area. The price of oil has gone up and down, but at some point, it will just keep going steadily up and with each nickel increase, it will make a car centered lifestyle less practical. People who aren't ditching suburbs for lifestyle reasons will just find it easier and better to take trains. As for technological improvements, that is just a catch all magic wand. And there is my serious answer.
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May 28, 2016 00:29
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i hope a high speed train embraces u OP
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Somebody forgot to quote this post; you are all welcome.
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dreezy posted:read title as "high speed trans" and thought that was a rude way to refer to caitlyn jenner. 
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Fojar38 posted:guys why doesnt this continent sized country do the same thing that my european country smaller than california does lol yeah why doesn't the richest loving country in the world do anything useful with its money
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That's really loving fast I feel like they should put at least some lovely fences around it. Also I bet everyone who lives out there in the country loving hates it cause it's loud as poo poo.
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Gaunab posted:America should be all over that poo poo but no one wants to fund it. Probably got something to do with the oil and plane companies and amtrak sucking. op if your mothers screen name is America, then she's all about high speed trains
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SHISHKABOB posted:That's really loving fast I feel like they should put at least some lovely fences around it. Also I bet everyone who lives out there in the country loving hates it cause it's loud as poo poo. It's so fast that you can't hear it though. That's the beauty of it, it's faster than sound so it's totally quiet.
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notZaar posted:It's so fast that you can't hear it though. That's the beauty of it, it's faster than sound so it's totally quiet. right u nut faster than sound so she don't feel it but that's not how it works otherwise
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May 28, 2016 04:40
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also seriouspost: because transport of coal has hosed our existing rail systems to the extent that they would have to be completely replaced in order to be used for high-speed trains
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May 28, 2016 04:46
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SHISHKABOB posted:lol yeah why doesn't the richest loving country in the world do anything useful with its money uh, i think you will find that the f35 is very useful for enriching incredibly corrupt politicians and contractors
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Zarimus posted:Maybe if every seat is also a toilet... Oh so just like regular public transportation then
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why the gently caress would we when cars are cheap and the infrastructure in place exists.
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SurfaceDetail posted:why the gently caress would we when cars are cheap and the infrastructure in place exists. Because we should be more like enlightened topless europe
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May 29, 2016 15:26
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they just need to be sold right, I mean I live in a state that turned down government money to build high speed rail because of things?!
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Because history shows the train will get built but then no one will ride it and it will become a huge money sink to maintain while it slowly deteriorates over the next few decades, you geek
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May 29, 2016 15:40
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i want to embrace a high speed train, with my face, and my meat parts
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Embrace high speed brains, op.
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Embrace high speed grains, op.
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SurfaceDetail posted:why the gently caress would we when cars are cheap and the infrastructure in place exists. because the infrastructure in place is insufficient for modern traffic/living situations and in many places there's physically no room left for new lanes because airlines are poo poo. it takes longer to check in and go through security than the flight itself when flying LA/SF
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Tuxedo Gin posted:there's physically no room left for new lanes I-5 in north Portland has fewer lanes than I-84 in Meridian, Idaho
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happyhippy posted:Faster stuff = more safety needed. This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. I can't believe no one else has called you an idiot yet.
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In order to get to I-5 from San Jose you have to go on a windy two lane road through Gilroy and will inevitably get stuck behind a loving truck the whole way. Nevermind that any amount of traffic will make it a 90 minute nightmare.
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tenspott posted:This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. I can't believe no one else has called you an idiot yet. http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/11/how-republicans-killed-americas-high-speed-rail-plan/7458/ https://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-Republican-governors-e-g-John-Kasich-OH-and-Rick-Scott-FL-opposed-to-high-speed-rail http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/279541-texas-high-speed-train-project-takes-land-from-texans-and-jobs Don't need no high falut'in fast government money trains in my back yard y'hear now! Edit: But no reguluations on safety at gas refinerys and coal mines, sure full steam ahead yee haw! happyhippy fucked around with this message at 17:43 on May 29, 2016 |
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everything to do with trains lately is a siren call for randians republicans and autists
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I don't get this NO BUT AMERICA IS SO BIG TRAINS CAN'T WORK!! thing. Yeah, there's huge tracts of sparsely populated territory. Those are not the places anyone wants to build high speed rail in.
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