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Hugolas_Madurez saysWrong. Fleecing the taxpayer was the only reason for that choo-choo project to exist.You're confusing issues. corruption and inefficiency or incompetence is not inherent of a high-speed rail .Get away from your little world, turn off Rush. Go out to see the rest of the world. Sometimes we do things better sometimes others do things better. Efficient mass transport, we are the dunce of the 1st world.
Go out to see the rest of the world.
Efficient mass transport, we are the dunce of the 1st world.
The US is much bigger geographically than most of the 1st world and it is alot more difficult and less efficient to try and lay tracks after cities have spent 100+ years building out.
Imagine if workers can ride a maglev train from Stockton, Sacranento and arrive refreshed, rested in <1 hour.
What was the fucking point to even plan a passenger railroad between SF and LA when this particular route is already covered by aviation so cheaply and efficiently?
This has proved to be an enormous benefit for cities in China where fast trains have been built. My own research has measured the real estate price growth in medium-sized cities when they become connected to big cities by high-speed rail. The trains effectively move second-tier cities such as Tianjin and Suzhou “closer” to megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
To be sure, high-speed rail is expensive to build. But the economic payoff can also be great. Fast trains allow people to work and play in big cities and still live somewhere they can afford.
Again, HS rail is not the only solution, just one of many.
You need to go ride on one.
BART, NY subways are butt fuk jokes in comparison.
Fred Reeds, googLe it, friend.
I gotta work.
Anyway, the train pulled in and looked like a freaking rocketship.
America’s most productive cities are notoriously short of housing.
From someone who proposed building more airports...lol.
You act like there is only one way to go forward - the same way we did for the last 100 years.
This seems more like progress and the way forward to me.
I seriously hope you joking.
It will cost a million bucks, on l y Zuckerberg can afford one.
kt1652 saysI seriously hope you joking.
Why and about what? If you're talking to me. If you think trains are the future, you've got to be joking, not me.
Didn't watch the whole video, but this is it. You can have single lane traffic at different altitudes and have them merge over into the air (space) that likely already exists and descent to their destination. Like front door type shit. And it could all be automated.
You are ignorant of energy utilization efficiency Each of us flying on our personal aircraft to work!!
You are also clueless of vehicle cost for pie-in-the sky tech.
You are ignorant of energy utilization efficiency Each of us flying on our personal aircraft to work!!
There were no HS rail in China in 2008. Today, it is the envy of the world, outside patnet, anyway.
We pretty much already have the technology available now and just need to get the government regulations, software and battery tech in sync. Hopefully in the next 10 years,
This approach seems far better, faster, more environmentally friendly and less daunting than building thousands of miles of new freeway lanes, railroad tracks, bridges, tunnels and everything that goes with it.
kt1652 saysYou are ignorant of energy utilization efficiency Each of us flying on our personal aircraft to work!!
You do understand that it's a matter of years, not decades before we have drones that can fly you around with the same batteries that are in Teslas, right? I dislike the guy and thought he was an idiot for trying what he was doing, but Musk has made MASSIVE waves in a short amount of time in what, a top 5 global industry? Creating a EV out of thin air and doing it better or as good compared to the grandfathers of the industry. Pie-in-the sky I suppose. Tell that to D-bag Musk.
kt1652 saysThere were no HS rail in China in 2008. Today, it is the envy of the world, outside patnet, anyway.
And what does their (China) HS rail do? Essentially moves slaves to their jobs. If you got into...
When EV/renewable enervy is bad - Musk is a scammer, Tesla is a accounting pyramid heading to bkcy
Why don't you try "highest effective utilization of a unit of energy per unit of dustance", at a scale of billions of people context.
Trains do have the advantage that they generally stop in the centers of cities, unlike airports, which are almost always on the peripheries.
If you don't think proposing everyone to fly on electric drones as a mass transport solution is absurd, I guess we agree to disagree.
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It was pure old-school corruption, a specialty of Democrats.