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If you look on Google Maps, there’s this super convenient line of trees that goes from the next large city north-ish of my town to the largest city in the state, south of me. It runs right through my town. If you go looking in that line of trees, you’ll find abandoned train tracks.

There was a day when someone (not me, I’m not that old) could get on a train in my town and go to virtually any medium to large city. Now, we can’t even get funding to connect the walking trail segments that parallel portions of those abandoned tracks between towns.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is this Houston?

This sounds exactly like Houston.

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- Bangs42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nah. If Ted Cruz called the same state home as I do, I’d self deport.
  
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fuck cars

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- balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I assure you, Amtrak isn’t good. There’s only one stretch near me where it’s faster to train than drive, and Amtrak makes the price about 8x the cost of driving (or 32x if you have passengers)
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Amtrak isn’t good
    
    Going from DC to NYC without stepping onto a plane or fighting traffic is such a blessing.
    
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    balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And you’ve nailed the only functioning service line I was referring to in one go :)
    
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  - explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh I believe you. I’m on a train literally right now.
    
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