This comment really needs a /sarcasm tag
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Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 months agoYeah no country has ever built a high speed passenger rail network interconnecting cities spread throughout an area comparable to the usa. And it’s absurd to think that it could be done in under 20 years and receive massive popular support and have universally recognised benefits. Guys the cost is too high for the biggest economy on earth and the distance is so far that they could never build a railway across it especially not more than 100 years ago.
(Well to be fair the Chinese did also build the railways across the US so maybe they do have something America doesn’t)
Soleos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’m sorry are you being serious? Please add /srs if you are to your comment. I don’t know what to think unless explicitly told because I’ve never used my brain before.
Soleos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am serious. I read your comment twice wondering if you were being serious. Even with your comment at the end, I imagine a lot of people would read your comment straight, since most people don’t know much about Chinese HSR.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Wait is this serious? I need an /srs if it is?
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The ideal is a mix, planes for the long haul, trains for short haul.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Slave labor.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Man if only the US and a massive incarcerated population with which they could use to forcibly work on a rail project, then it would be possible. If only.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Woosh
Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Huh?