The world leaping ahead of us, the U.S. still has no fast trains.

[the other mike]

 

[Unkotare]

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Are you going to discuss the topic or not?

 

[the other mike]

I've lost patience for annoying snarky dweebs like wonkaborie..

 

[Unkotare]

I've lost patience for annoying snarky dweebs like Wonka boring.View attachment 506523

OP trolling his own thread. Why?

 

[HenryBHough]

If there were a market for fast trains there'd be fast trains.
There is no market for fast trains so there are no fast trains.
Of course some future Democrat regime may mandate that there be fast trains.
It would take an outright Communist regime to mandate that anyone use them.

Be patient.

 

[Weatherman2020]

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[the other mike]

If there were a market for fast trains there'd be fast trains.
There is no market for fast trains so there are no fast trains.
Of course some future Democrat regime may mandate that there be fast trains.
It would take an outright Communist regime to mandate that anyone use them.

Be patient.

Should I go into my $7 trillion Iraq war analogy
or do you see my point ?

 

[Unkotare]

If there were a market for fast trains there'd be fast trains.
There is no market for fast trains so there are no fast trains.
Of course some future Democrat regime may mandate that there be fast trains.
It would take an outright Communist regime to mandate that anyone use them.

Be patient.

Should I go into my $7 trillion Iraq war analogy
or do you see my point ?

Off topic yet again.

 

[Flash]

Who gives a shit if we have fast trains or not? I know I don't.

If somebody can make a profit building them and operating them then more power to them. We sure as hell don't need government subsidies.

 

[westwall]

Trains are dial up modems in the era of fiber internet.

Really ?
Japan has had them since before the Internet even. Bad analogy.

And with one exception they all lose money.

How much did that winter freeze in Texas cost because of poor infrastucture ?
How many people were killed in ice storm crashes last winter ?
What's the cost of cleaning up a 70 car pileup ?

Considerably less than building 10 miles of high speed rail line.

 

[westwall]

So you seriously want to build rail across the oceans? Seriously?

Don't play word games - I never brought that up - you did.

Do you support the idea or not?

In short stretches, underwater rail tunnels look feasible enough.
The English chunnel to France is pretty cool, and there's talk of one across the Bering. But across a whole ocean ? No.

The same applies to ALL high speed rail projects. In certain, very rare places, they make a lot of sense. But here in the USA there is only one place that used to qualify.

Thanks to government incompetence, and outright fascist orders, even that one place no longer exists.

 

[the other mike]

Trains are dial up modems in the era of fiber internet.

Really ?
Japan has had them since before the Internet even. Bad analogy.

And with one exception they all lose money.

How much did that winter freeze in Texas cost because of poor infrastucture ?
How many people were killed in ice storm crashes last winter ?
What's the cost of cleaning up a 70 car pileup ?

Considerably less than building 10 miles of high speed rail line.

China has 40,000 miles at less then the cost of 2 aircraft carriers and any given 5 years of war in Iraq.

 

[westwall]

Trains are dial up modems in the era of fiber internet.

Really ?
Japan has had them since before the Internet even. Bad analogy.

And with one exception they all lose money.

How much did that winter freeze in Texas cost because of poor infrastucture ?
How many people were killed in ice storm crashes last winter ?
What's the cost of cleaning up a 70 car pileup ?

Considerably less than building 10 miles of high speed rail line.

China has 40,000 miles at less then the cost of 2 aircraft carriers and any given 5 years of war in Iraq.

And they used slave labor to build it, at unknown number of lives lost, and very little of that rail is useful for high speed.

Look up just how difficult it is to rate rail for high speed usage.

 

[Markle]

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Trains are dial up modems in the era of fiber internet.

Really ?
Japan has had them since before the Internet even. Bad analogy.

And with one exception they all lose money.

How much did that winter freeze in Texas cost because of poor infrastucture ?
How many people were killed in ice storm crashes last winter ?
What's the cost of cleaning up a 70 car pileup ?

All of those combined don't close to that which has been wasted on just the failed California high-speed rail to date much less completing the boondoggle.

 

[Markle]

Trains are dial up modems in the era of fiber internet.

Really ?
Japan has had them since before the Internet even. Bad analogy.

And with one exception they all lose money.

How much did that winter freeze in Texas cost because of poor infrastucture ?
How many people were killed in ice storm crashes last winter ?
What's the cost of cleaning up a 70 car pileup ?

Considerably less than building 10 miles of high speed rail line.

China has 40,000 miles at less then the cost of 2 aircraft carriers and any given 5 years of war in Iraq.

 

[percysunshine]

Elon Musk can fix this. He can do anything.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/tech/innovation/elon-musk-tube-hyperloop/index.html

 

[Markle]

The OP seems to be mixing his fantasy of wasting billions upon billions for nothing with his general hatred of the United States.

I love this country.
Don't put words in my mouth Dickhead.

You cannot love this country and advocate for wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on a system that would need hundreds of billions of dollars to run the system.

 

[the other mike]

The OP seems to be mixing his fantasy of wasting billions upon billions for nothing with his general hatred of the United States.

I love this country.
Don't put words in my mouth Dickhead.

You cannot love this country and advocate for wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on a system that would need hundreds of billions of dollars to run the system.

^^Another nut putting words in my mouth.
Pretty tough to have a normal discussion around here.

 

[the other mike]

American exceptionalism.
$28.4 trillion and counting......
not counting the $20 trillion shift in wealth from the bottom 70% to the top 1% in just 40 years. A remarkable feat I must say. You Reagan boys did your homework no doubt.

 

[the other mike]