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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Here you go. Looks like it'd be about the eastern third to one half of the country getting high speed rail in just 10 years. That's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And realistically, there are no good reasons America couldn't have a decent high speed rail system across the eastern seaboard and maybe the western seaboard with a couple connecting links between them where the population supports it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The US can't even build high speed rail from LA to San Francisco, and they're no closer to even starting it than they were when they started talking about it 20 years ago. It's cooked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

to be fair the US is a relatively small economy that doesn't have resources to pull this off once you subtract the money needed to topple elected governments and bomb brown kids overseas, while militarizing the police to crack down on the melanin epidemic in house.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Thats so awesome!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

That is pretty nuts