The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.
So hopefully they improve the transit situation in the cities & surrounding areas as well.
Oh, I knew the feds had cancelled grant money to it, I didn’t know the state killed it. I know they’re all in the pocket of big oil, but it’s just wild to me how trains are apparently woke.
They are woke because they have potential to improve lives regardless of class, race, or gender. Obviously they should have to “earn” those improvements by buying a car instead.
The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.
We can’t build mass transit because then we might need to build more mass transit.
Also, it would be entirely impossible to expand local mass transit after the intrastate rail broke ground but before it was finished. Couldn’t be done. But we somehow can completely rewire I-45 to facilitate more interstate trucking.
Well, you’ve got to start somewhere. CAHSR has been the impetus for a lot of sprawled out central valley cities to get their shit together. Fresno is probably the prime example of this. We’re trying to drag Merced into getting its shit together, though kicking and screaming it may be.
I think you Death Noted them, because HB 3187 made it through the House Transportation Committee an hour or two after you posted this comment. It would effectively kill DART (a ~30% service reduction).
But hear me out, what if the train was powered by coal and suffering?
I’m here trying to figure out if you mean that the train is powered by suffering and coal, or if you mean the train is suffering, and it is powered by coal.
I’m probably focusing on the wrong thing, but it feels important.
(Seriously tho those wide urban highways split up a city as much as a river does. It looks like the Hudson in NYC with those massive bridges).
In a couple decades it’ll be parking lots and highways with no city left.
Displacing minorities is a feature. Otherwise Those People might build up generational wealth, and eventually start considering themselves white people’s equals. POSIWID.
