What If The United States Built A Transcontinental High Speed Rail Line? | Geography By Geoff (11:41)

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• Sylver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It needs to be complimented by better local transport infrastructure, or else we just end up with bigger parking lots on both ends

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shit, I’d be happy with a good commuter rail network lol

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can anyone please provide a bit of background on this YouTuber?

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s such a good idea, why aren’t the private RR companies getting together to ask that question? Questions like: who pays for it? what does ‘high speed mean’ (150mph average = about 20 hours), why transcontinenal (SF to NY is mostly EMPTY) and who’d benefit the most (not most of US).

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think there would need to be a lot of public funding, and the amount of airline lobby money against this would make it impossible.

    Good idea or not, it all comes down to money.

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right now, the federal government pays for Amtrak, along with a few ticket sales and whatnot. They got 66 billion dollars last year from the feds. Private companies simply couldn’t afford to run rail, it’s just not profitable when airlines and the highway system exist. Hell, the rail companies struggle to compete with trucks on freight.

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure the moderator of a right-wing propaganda community on lemm.ee is really the right person to be talking about out how something shouldn’t be because it isn’t “profitable” for private companies.

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• jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’d be cool, as long as Musk isn’t allowed anywhere near the project.

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