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dickalan@lemmy.world 5 months agoYes, but how does that pertain to this picture, I would need like a before and after photo to know any context for this image, thank you for sharing, though I appreciate the response response
In two parts.
The good news is that soon there’ll be the California High Speed rail line. I’m hopeful that I can make a good long trip over there once it opens in a few years to check it out. Heck maybe I’ll move to California for a year or two? Who knows!
I always forget the Acela is technically a high speed rail. It would only actually be a tiny fraction of that line. Less than 10% of the line is HSR
Acela trains are the fastest in the Americas, reaching 150–160 miles per hour (240–260 km/h) (qualifying as high-speed rail), but only for approximately 40 miles (64 km) of the 457-mile (735 km) route.
That has to be the slowest high-speed rail in the world. 260km/h is not even that fast and it only reaches this speed for couple minutes.
260 is pretty decent for HSR, lots of services are called “high speed” despite only being 200km/h (the thing is just that the services run almost the entire line at that speed)
In short, the US has absolutely zero high-speed rail infrastructure - and barely any rail infrastructure at all compared to what it used to have and the size of the country.
This was one of many proposed high-speed rail networks from (I think) the late 2000s/early 2010s, but the fledgling train companies were largely strangled or bought up and closed by freight rail, car, and fossil fuel companies, so nothing ever happened.
We have rail infrastructure…it just happens all be mostly owned by freight rail companies
We do, but it’s really scaled back compared to what we used to have. There are so many scars of abandoned rail lines all over major cities where they were torn out and replaced with road infrastructure. So many central train stations that are shadows of their former selves.
China will swallow up everything. This is how useless that extremist, “fuck the peasants” ideology is. It just leads to being outcompeted heavily.
The rich are also really stupid and shortsighted. The consolidation of wealth leads to populism, which leads to authoritarianism.
Have they not seen what happens when they clash with authoritarianism? They should look at Jack Ma and realize that, from a game theory perspective, if they just stand against tyrants, they stand to preserve their power and wealth better…
OK, so it was like a real life who framed Roger rabbit situation, thank you for taking the time to explain
Weird aside, but Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Is actually kind of base on a true story. Oil, tire, and car companies did actually conspire to dismantle Los Angeles’ then extensive street car network.
Yeah. I kind of figured as much, there is so much truth hidden fiction. It’s Astounding
5too@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If Tylenol caused autism, there would be a lot more support for trains in the U.S.