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That looks wonderfully boring and slow. We'll get you there eventually. Just don't watch Hindenburg.
Modern blimps use helium that is not susceptible to fires.
Noise from LAX is heard miles away. The airport also pollutes nice beach areas.
People who live there will certainly vote to allow only clean and noiseless planes in LAX.
Our country is so behind when it comes to the rail system. Look at Europe. You can get anywhere very quick with bullet trains.
lol...look up a direct route on the TGV and take a look at the time.
I just priced a direct ticket from Marseilles to Paris, and the trip time was 10hr, 23 min for a 477 mile trip. Cost was 60 euro. Why so slow for a train that goes 200 mph? Because it stops so often.
Now let's do San Fran to LA.
My car could make that drive in under 7 hours on less than a full tank of gas, and oh btw, I have my ground transportation covered when I get to my destination.
A one way, nonstop flight would cost $75-150 and take 90 minutes. I'd need ground transport at my destination, but I'd need it if I took a much slower train as well.
Our airport network and interstate highway system has rendered passenger rail useless for anything other than everyone on a slow trip being able to sight see...sort of. HSR in the US is pure boondoggle. It defines the word, really.
It is eerie how similar California is to New Jersey. Well, when you have the unlimited resources of the taxpayer, you can just spend spend spend your way to nowhere
I’m saying that we are way behind other countries. Why don’t we have bullet trains connecting our cities. Instead we have to drive or take a plane.
Wow. A Euro Groupie. I thought you guys gave that up in the 90s.
What y'all see as "behind" most people now see as (to use another 90s anachronism)
"mo bettah".
I’m saying that we are way behind other countries. Why don’t we have bullet trains connecting our cities. Instead we have to drive or take a plane.
Because Europe doesn’t spend Trillions of dollars being the world’s police force, and deliverer of democracy for those who don’t want it. They don’t pay the lion’s share of costs for the globalist institutions like NATO and the United Nations, and World Health Organization, or believe it is their obligation to provide hundreds of billions for other countries security and wars like Ukraine and Israel. So they spend their money on infrastructure like high speed rail, and other domestic programs.
We could do the same thing, but we don’t. Because we keep electing the same corrupt crooks who continue spending all of OUR money on everyone other than us.
This thing is one of the biggest messes we've ever had here in CA. Couple of guys here on local talk radio have been talking about this nightmare for a few years now. I don't think it will ever get completed. I've been hearing talk of scraping the thing now for a while.
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