this is a poor take--people in Japan use airplanes for long-distance trips too, even if it's possible to make the trip by train instead
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needless to say, most Japanese airports are accessible by train, and all (that I know of) are accessible by bus)
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Replying to @380kmh @Chiakipus
Oh yes. America doesn't have a rail network because of: * 1960's through 1990's white flight which made all interurban travel suburb->suburb or suburb->urban at best. * Transit Unions who double the cost of rail service if not more. * Buy America
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With that said, there's basically 6 cities worth mentioning on the West side of I-35, isolated from each other by mountains. The entire Western half of the country is best served by planes, and a Vancouver to Portland HSR. And once the West half uses planes for everything...
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Replying to @poiThePoi @Chiakipus
There are several viable intercity corridors out west, not all of which need HSR--and there are many more situations out west where suburban rail makes sense. People who think rail won't work bc it doesn't work on, say, Dallas to Seattle travel are seriously missing the point
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You can't ride a train from Austin to Michigan so Houston should look like this forever with no trainspic.twitter.com/szriL9XZGU
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Oh yeah, it's time to densify and retrofit. I've got a Houston->Corpus Cristi -> San Antonio vacation earmarked for 2022 and the traffic from the airport to Galveston is literally adding a day to that trip.
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Texas traffic is either miles of giant empty road with people going >90 mph, road consyruction, or carmageddon
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that's actually most traffic--although the empty roads here in New England are a bit narrower and a lot curvier (not that you'd know based on people's speeds)
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