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DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Photoshopped of course. Probably a model from a high end car show they could superimpose. No chance in hell that girl is at whatever event that is. Also no reflection in any of the windows.

Patrick says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Aside the fact that the math just doesn't work for HST in 99% of America

Why doesn't it work? Tracks for high speed trains too expensive to build?

Three aspects here.

Yes it’s incredibly expensive. The right of ways plus building in mountains.

Second, it’s the effing government. All the California high speed train was is Jerry Brown paying back the unions that are his political donors. Create additional government bureaucracy represented by unions. And in fact that’s what happened.

Finally, there’s truly no purpose. People bemoan how early you have to leave to get through LAX but Long Beach, John Wayne, Burbank, and Ontario service millions. And those don’t require you leave home three hours before your flight to SF or LV. It only takes a few minutes to go through TSA at those locations. And those flights can be had for $99-120 round trip. And quicker overall than any train.

I still assert that the LA to Vegas train idea came from some buffoon who tried to drive back to LA on a holiday return day where everyone with a brain knows it’s gonna be a 7 hour trip because California drivers are terrible. Said buffoon was probably bitching and moaning the whole way and comparing it to Europe. Basically considering buffoons own needs and desires and nothing else…like the 300+ days a year where this dynamic doesn’t exist. And instead buffoon thinks like a buffoon and says to himself “oh the trains in Europe are just SPLENDID!” Instead of considering cost, cost of airfare, not going on holiday weekends, etc.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

And those don’t require you leave home three hours before your flight to SF or LV. It only takes a few minutes to go through TSA at those locations. And those flights can be had for $99-120 round trip. And quicker overall than any train.

The problem with train routes in the US is every town/city is going to be lobbying for a stop. Unless passengers load and unload in 10 seconds at each stop, it's a pointless endeavor. Europe has major hubs much closer to each other. They can go 100 miles without stoping. That's not happening in the US. There are too many mid sized cities on almost every route. If I have to go to Chicago to get on a train, I'm just going to Midway and flying.

Chicago to say St. Louis non-stop on a HST would take me 90 minutes to get to Union station and park. Then check in. Mind you there's no parking garage on site. Today with wind chills at 15ºF it would blow. Then if you have tracks that don't cater to freight, so say 250mph non stop it's still a 3-1/2 hour trip. Flying would be the same. But I park the car and am in an elevator to the terminal in 20 seconds.

Freight versus passenger trains one hurdle. Right of way as FTMM mentions another. Infrastructure. Tracks and grade crossings so you don't hit a car going 200 mph. Then you get into the bridge game. Stations would need upgrading. It's 100% doable, but why waste the money? We need to stop spending money. Also existing freight lines you would share are insanely difficult to deal with. It takes them months to do anything to help a project get going.

I hate more government, but there should be a DOT2.0 (Department of Trains). The rail companies are about as gangster as you can get. They give no shits about any other government body. They get to do whatever they want. They just build a bridge or the tracks in a neighboring community. It got held up and made the project take 5 years. Not a joke. Could have been done in 2 years accounting for winter here.

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DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Gotta move on at some point.

https://x.com/Globalstats11/status/1866181918330327172

Crazy stupid policing. Those gals will get killed by someone if that's routine for them. If he's got shrooms or weed, who cares? Won't kill anyone. Most deaths happen on the roadway, not a sidewalk. Start taking cell phones from drivers. Those are more dangerous than someone getting high sitting on a couch listening to music or a movie.

Gee, for a moment I was wondering if it was lesbians frenzied with cock hunger who were going to gang bang the yute for their occasional dick fix.

Women should not be police.

Women should only interview female and child victims, handle female perps, and do paperwork. Perhaps traffic control.