Sure high speed rail sounds great, but realistically, we’d make a way bigger impact getting decent intercity mass transit everywhere first.
How do they contradict at all?
The good thing is that building one helps build the other. One of the best ways to manage transit projects to build small, forward-thinking improvements that can contribute to a larger, patchwork network.
For example, reopening the Lackawanna Cut would enable new high speed sections of track between DC/Philadelphia and Pennsylvania/WNY/Canada. Future rail projects could then build new high speed sections around DC or Toronto that would then cut transit times on both the Lackawanna Cut and the Northeast Corridor and/or The Canadian Corridor. Bit by bit, with just a few billion dollars at a time (instead of trillion dollar megaprojects), the American East Coast could become a world leader in intercity rail, on par with Japan.
The trick is to just get started improving existing rail corridors. It’s not flashy and won’t get you a million votes, bit it’s the most effective way to do it.
I’m all but one of those things!
Yeah, I also don’t like anime.
I’m not a bottom
Well hello there 😘
You forgot Minecraft.
I’m all except cocaine addict.
Just one more step. You can do it!
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Id wish we would actually use our railroads at all
