When you realize this is *not* the map we already have, you get a sense of just how dire the long-distance rail situation is herehttps://twitter.com/samjmintz/status/1318910466798780416 …
It's been a while since I've read about this, but my impression was that the issue is that absent very high density, long distance rail doesn't draw enough riders to be sustainable. This is where it matters that US Population density is like, a third of France's...
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Since we are busy propping up airlines, I’d rather subsidize rail...
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Still, 3 hours to get from Boston to NYC? Should be better along crowded corridors.
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There's the time and there's the price - an extraordinary percentage of the time it is cheaper to fly. With climate change looming that state of affairs can't be accepted
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If you can get decent speed, routes like Dallas-Austin-San Antonio or Dallas-Houston can replace a lot of cars and a lot of flights, and that is good for the economy and the environment (and makes air travel more reliable by freeing airport flight slots for long-haul flights).
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The same could be said of the road network though. Taxes don’t even cover half of the road maintenance and construction costs.
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Yeah, which is silly. Gas taxes should pay for road use. (That could get harder as electric cars become more common, though - they'll need to be taxed for their road use at some point. But for now, we can ignore that.)
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I believe only the colored areas are HSR lines. You’ll notice they’re located around denser city clusters
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