Go Cali, Fukk Brightline and Rick Scoot.California begins process of purchasing high speed trainsets - Trains
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is preparing to buy the first trainsets for its high speed rail system. The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors last week approved a Request for Qualifications for the purchase of six trainsets for use on the initial 171-mile...www.trains.com
It's intentional. The oil lobbyists won't allow it
All our tax money not going to the places it should. The military taking all that tax money and blowing it on shyt they don’t even use. Europeans pay a lot in taxes but at least that tax money going back to the people and their communities like healthcare, school etcI see other countries already have a complete system of these rails already and wonder why we don't have one yet.
I've lived in poor and rich areas, still see the same potholes on the streets that have been there for years. All this tax money and nothing, no solutions for the common citizen. I've seen suburb streets worse than streets in the hood that never get fixed while they annihilate people's cars day-after-day for years.
Sad to say, I don't trust out engineering/politics to ride one of those things. There're going to be some cut corners if it ever happens.
I'll wait for a few years until the first one is fully built and functional personally, if it ever gets built.
Not to mention clowns like Elon Musk having so much influence.
It really is sad to say that about American engineering, but here we are.
Yup. Basically been saying this.All our tax money not going to the places it should. The military taking all that tax money and blowing it on shyt they don’t even use. Europeans pay a lot in taxes but at least that tax money going back to the people and their communities like healthcare, school etc