high-speed rail

When Shinzo Abe met Donald Trump, one thing that made my ears prick up were Abe's references to mag-lev high-speed rail. Abe reminded me of the monorail salesman in the Simpsons urging a prestigious white elephant. It makes sense for Japan and it makes sense for Donald Trump and Abe pushed his...

California seems perfect for this. Wonder why it took so long. Car culture in the US? http://news.yahoo.com/california-oks-funding-high-speed-rail-line-230224919.html

A couple of related articles: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/20/local/la-me-cal-state-20120320 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/19/1101459/-CA-High-Speed-Rail-Critical-Decision After much thought, I find myself forced to conclude that High Speed Rail, while extremely cool and all...

tOo8_rm9m5Y To quote myself...he's sitting in an air-conditioned room, wearing machine-stitched clothes, surrounded by books, near indoor plumbing, eating complementary food, filling his plump over-nutritioned belly, looking through scientifically-designed glasses, talking with freedom of...

So what will the future of mass transportation be in the United States? We already have subways and light rail in the cities. We have airports to connect the cities. How are they going to evolve in the future? What about the airports? They're already crowded and pollute what is next for them...

Florida governor proves he is an idiot. I swear that people who oppose high speed rail just need to be walled off somewhere so they can fester in the mad max wasteland their ideologies would inevitably create. They disgust me. They just thoroughly disgust me. I am ashamed that I have to...

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Linky Why in the hell are they pushing this? The Sec. of Transportation was on the Daily Show a few weeks ago crowing about it. Sure, it'll be great for the northeast, where cities are densly packed and not far apart. But normal-speed trains work just fine there. I even get the single-link...