Yeah this is clearly the work of Big Acetylsalicylic Acid
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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I assume the gray gaps are due to red states refusing to get on the Tylenol/Autism Train, but I can’t believe, if the Autist Party were in power, they wouldn’t insist on connecting ALL the dots.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You-know-who oughta be grateful he only had to stumble through pronouncing acetaminophen.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s kind of weird too because logistically the northern boarder is the easiest place to expand rails: big flat great planes region, with both of the two largest rivers for ferrying in supplies, followed by a bypass around the bulk of the rocky mountains into Oregon or Washington State.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s about need. Like yeah, Chicago through the Dakotas is easy as pie, but the demand would be to seattle and that crosses two mountain ranges and the only stops between Minnesota and Seattle with much demand there would be at national parks.
Like yeah it would be awesome as hell and the American version of the CCP would absofuckinglutely have a high speed rail to Yellowstone and the badlands since they’re on the way. But Yellowstone is past the start of the mountains and you need to connect all the way to seattle for it to be more than a vanity project.
The important lines are the NY-Chicago (land is dirt cheap for lots of it, mountains are small, and population is dense with several makor cities you can hit) and the west coast line (basically actually do California high speed rail, then extend it from San Diego to just outside British Columbia
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
The above map basically connects every major city in the country with a high speed rail route, makes it easy to travel by high speed rail from any major city in a region to any other major city in a rrhion and standard speed routes to connect some of the smaller major cities and provide alternate cross connections for less populad itineraries
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is already a rail south into California.