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1. feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 10-May-2022 02:34:16 UTC feld

   • ☆ Dmitri ☭
   You're asking for the equivalent drop-of-the-hat convenience of owning your own car without owning your own car. And they would just make the TSA for the fast rail just as bad. 🥹🥹🥹
   • ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-May-2022 02:34:16 UTC ☆ Dmitri ☭

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     @feld this works fine in plenty European countries and China. The reason this isn't possible in US is because it's a failed state.

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   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 16:09:07 UTC feld

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     • ☆ Dmitri ☭
     Maintaining what is there is not as big of a deal, but it's definitely getting more expensive.
     
     Now draw the rail corridors on the USA and tell me who you are taking that land from and how you're going to pay for it. And for those that refuse to sell -- how you're going to take it from them (imminent domain?) and not have the project delayed by court cases for years and years and years ...
   • publius (publius@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2022 16:09:07 UTC publius

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     • ☆ Dmitri ☭

     @feld @yogthos

     What are you talking about?

     When it comes to long-distance rail lines in the USA, they already exist. They just don't carry passengers, and some of them have had the rails torn up and sold for scrap. But to electrify existing lines, or even rehabilitate abandoned ones, doesn't require laying out alignments and acquiring land along them.

     Besides, when it comes to road project, there's somehow never any problem getting the land, even for privately-owned toll roads.

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