Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail

[Low End Derrick]

 

[Sohh_lifted]

Just a reminder, Obama gave FL billions of dollars to construct high speed rail in FL. Rick Scott denied those federal funds, to only personally invest in privatized high speed rail aka Brightline.

 

[Kooley_High]

Watching a walkthrough of some of these chinese cities is amazing. Gangzhou, Tianjin, Shenzen, Chonging. The fact that they developed these cities in the last 10-15 years and are walkable with their own metro systems and industries puts us to shame. And millions of people live them. not thousands but millions!

Meanwhile we cant even build one high speed rail line or solve our housing crisis. shyt is backwards

 

[GPBear]

put elon musk's bytch ass in jail, he's anti-american, ruining this country for his own material gain

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[Mike Nasty]

Watching a walkthrough of some of these chinese cities is amazing. Gangzhou, Tianjin, Shenzen, Chonging. The fact that they developed these cities in the last 10-15 years and are walkable with their own metro systems and industries puts us to shame. And millions of people live them. not thousands but millions!

Meanwhile we cant even build one high speed rail line or solve our housing crisis. shyt is backwards

It's easy when you can sweep people off the land like trash.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

B.C. still on board for high-speed rail between Vancouver and Seattle, Portland

Was just in Seattle and Vancouver a month ago- this would have been sick. Biggest problem we have is you have many layers for approval- Federal, State, Municipal, Local, Township, etc with 48 landlocked states. Lots of layers of bureaucracy.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

If anything this potential railroad strike should serve as long overdue wakeup call for our lack investment in high speed rail. Like 3 companies own the entire rail system in the country.

Amtrak and public trans via rail is totally held hostage here due to our negligence and under investment.

 

[3rdWorld]

Americas infrastructure is ancient and crumbling.
and it won't get better anytime soon given Republicans opposition to everything.

 

[Mike Nasty]

If anything this potential railroad strike should serve as long overdue wakeup call for our lack investment in high speed rail. Like 3 companies own the entire rail system in the country.

There are 7 Class 1 RRs. The strike has nothing to do with high speed rail. It has the potential to expose how greedy corporations directly effect the supply chain, and how a certain political party are beholden to them.
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[Dallas' 4 Eva]

If I'm not mistaken they are building one between DFW and Houston, and eventually will build one between all 4 of the major Texas metropolitan areas.

 

[TEH]

Yea I understand that we've become a car culture but the US is sooo behind the world when it comes to our transit system

Some sweet day

 

[TheMailMan]

Labor cost is probably crazy . Joe gotta send that money to Ukraine instead

 

[Bleed The Freak]

There are 7 Class 1 RRs. The strike has nothing to do with high speed rail. It has the potential to expose how greedy corporations directly effect the supply chain, and how a certain political party are beholden to them.
T minus 43hrs

This nation's infrastructure failures is a human failure of biblical proportions.

Think about that sweet career opportunity folks have passed up b/c of a commute or distance. A decent weekend without loading up a vehicle or the stress of congested traffic or looking for parking. It's especially tragic in poor and rural areas. Folks are literally trapped. Plus the sizes of these vehicles is making real estate even smaller. You can only add so many lanes.

Was in Seattle and taking the rail from the airport to downtown was a total godsend.

 

[Mike Nasty]

This nation's infrastructure failures is a human failure of biblical proportions.

Think about that sweet career opportunity folks have passed up b/c of a commute or distance. A decent weekend without loading up a vehicle or the stress of congested traffic or looking for parking. It's especially tragic in poor and rural areas. Folks are literally trapped. Plus the sizes of these vehicles is making real estate even smaller. You can only add so many lanes.

Was in Seattle and taking the rail from the airport to downtown was a total godsend.

I don't disagree, but that's not what the strike is about.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I don't disagree, but that's not what the strike is about.

The strike is literally so they can't take sick days and get worked like Judah Ben-Hur. I know.

What I meant was that Amtrak uses the same rail. Disrupting people and not just goods, they're canceling trips now. Our lack of investment overall as a country in other rails being built and sticking to this outdated system hits us harder than what it should if there were other ways to travel by rail cross country.