Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail

[Sauce Dab]

The car and airline industries are ingrained in political corruption, the government doesn't want to ruin these allegiances. The American government will always decide in favor of their paying constituents, not what's best for people overall.

Every time. They don’t be giving af about the people

 

[Mike Nasty]

Explain

Taxi Union's.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-train-connecting-LaGuardia-Airport-to-the-MTA-Subway-system

The Port Authority of New York runs the airport (they also run Kennedy and Newark Airport), and makes money through parking charges and taxi surcharges. Over time, they have demonstrated a preference (e.g. the AirTrain system in Kennedy and Newark) for installing airport people-movers that connect with transit away from the airport, where they can charge a $5 entrance fee. The rail connections for Newark and JFK succeeded only by overcoming years of stonewalling by the PANY&NJ.

 

[loyola llothta]

The auto industry killed the train industry through lobbying though

Killed electric cars back in the days as well.

In a November 2014 editorial titled “How Two Billionaires Are Destroying High Speed Rail in America,” author Julie Doubleday observed that the US push against public mass transit has been led by a think tank called the Reason Foundation, which is funded by the Koch brothers. Their $44 billion fortune comes largely from Koch Industries, an oil and gas conglomerate with a vested interest in mass transit’s competitors, those single-rider vehicles using the roads that are heavily subsidized by the federal government.

Clearly, not all Republicans are opposed to funding infrastructure, since Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan was a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, and his Republican base voted him into office. But “establishment Republicans” have traditionally opposed infrastructure spending.

Why? According to a May 15, 2015 article in Daily Kos titled “Why Do Republicans Really Oppose Infrastructure Spending?”:

Republicans – at the behest of their mega-bank/private equity patrons – really, deeply want to privatize the nation’s infrastructure and turn such public resources into privately owned, profit centers. More than anything else, this privatization fetish explains Republicans’ efforts to gut and discredit public infrastructure . . . .

If the goal is to privatize and monetize public assets, the last thing Republicans are going to do is fund and maintain public confidence in such assets. Rather, when private equity wants to acquire something, the typical playbook is to first make sure that such assets are what is known as “distressed assets” (i.e., cheaper to buy).

 

[SheWantTheD]

Having a house in Philly and taking a 30 min train ride to NYC would be dope. Definitely a game changer real estate wise

Fam that sh would be 10-15 mins with a billet train.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

How much faster would a high speed rail be compared to flying? Say from Illinois to LA

 

[SheWantTheD]

The car and airline industries are ingrained in political corruption, the government doesn't want to ruin these allegiances. The American government will always decide in favor of their paying constituents, not what's best for people overall.

Yup... mf’s ain’t shyt. Transportation and even vacations would be a lot easier and cheaper. Especially for people that are afraid to fly.

Won’t have to wait for layovers or anything. High speed trains goes against the best interest of big corporations. I still believe people would still drive cars.

Unfortunately we probably won’t live to experience this in this country. Might have to move to japan for a bit to experience that bullet train life

 

[BlackMajik]

The car and airline industries are ingrained in political corruption, the government doesn't want to ruin these allegiances. The American government will always decide in favor of their paying constituents, not what's best for people overall.

It's a damn shame

This country has so much Highway congestion and Air Congestion it's insane not to have a high speed rail system

 

[Rawtid]

It's a damn shame

This country has so much Highway congestion and Air Congestion it's insane not to have a high speed rail system

Covid has this country showing its entire ass. Like someone said, we are a third world country parading around like a super power.

 

[Ezus Jezus]

shyt like this is why I don’t believe politicians when they say that they want to stimulate the economy. If people had affordable means to travel, they definitely would. They would be moving around the country and spending money. If they truly wanted it, they’d do everything in their power to get this done.

 

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Taxi Union's.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-train-connecting-LaGuardia-Airport-to-the-MTA-Subway-system

The Port Authority of New York runs the airport (they also run Kennedy and Newark Airport), and makes money through parking charges and taxi surcharges. Over time, they have demonstrated a preference (e.g. the AirTrain system in Kennedy and Newark) for installing airport people-movers that connect with transit away from the airport, where they can charge a $5 entrance fee. The rail connections for Newark and JFK succeeded only by overcoming years of stonewalling by the PANY&NJ.

There really is an economy in everything

 

[Afro]

It's a damn shame

This country has so much Highway congestion and Air Congestion it's insane not to have a high speed rail system

I would pay to sit on a train and ride around the country for fun.

This country is perpetually some bullshyt

 

[BlackMajik]

I would pay to sit on a train and ride around the country for fun.

This country is perpetually some bullshyt

Me too

 

[CopiousX]

This is corruption at its finest.





What do you call it when something costs inexplicably more in one place than other, and dollars cannot be accounted for? Corruption.








Don’t know why I thought about this today, but I’d love to see a v-shaped hSpeed line from Nashville to ATL to Charlotte. It could connect the bussiness and entertainment hubs of the south.



The only issue is tunneling through all those damn mountains

 

[Edub]

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

I was giving a lot of thought to this around 2004....Id just come back from Europe and the reversal in time I felt bein back here with no national transit system was crazy....it makes no sense why a country of this magnitude hasn’t embraced high speed rail. It’a gotta be lobbyists killin it at its root.

 

[Edub]

Publicly accessible National High Speed Rail is the next “Frontier” so to speak for this country.