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    1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      Another difference between the Osaka-Tokyo train line and the Amtrak Capitol Corridor (I can't believe my fingers just typed that) is that it's rare for the Shinkansen to stop and just stand in a field for two hours, where it is not rare for the Sacramento train to do this at all

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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      And when I say "it's rare", I mean that Japanese people would get chest pains just reading that last tweet, if their minds can even encompass it.

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    3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      It drives me nuts that we have the technology to put Tracy, Stockton, Modesto and Turlock within a half hour's commute to Silicon Valley, and don't use it. People like Facebook cafeteria workers commute this distance by car, some leaving at 2 AM to get to a 5 AM shift.pic.twitter.com/WLmwVzGGuO

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    4. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      What bothers me most about this is not that we don't build it, but that the idea of building it is not even within the realm of the imaginable. When we have a housing crisis, a multi-trillion dollar industry, the best minds on the planet, and a 100 kilometer distance to overcome

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    5. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      On my first visit to northern California, my girlfriend's dad took us with him to a conference in LA. We decided to take Amtrak back up to SF. He dropped us off in Los Angeles and was waiting to meet our train in his car 12 hours later in Oakland. This should not be possible.

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    6. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      San Francisco had better, faster rail service in 1941 than it does today. The Sacramento Northern connected the Transbay terminal (via railroad ferry!) to Sacramento and Chico, at speeds of 112 kph.pic.twitter.com/Cd0OfnYr28

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    7. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      Chico is a pretty university city in northern California. Redding used to be an aerospace startup hub and is near Mt. Shasta, a major tourist (and crystal spirit hippie) destination. Connecting these places to San Francisco and Sacramento with high-speed rail just makes sense.

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    8. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      All I want is full Sim City-level dictatorial power over northern and central California for five years. Is that so much to ask?

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    9. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      Northern California's best hope at a regional transportation plan is a very large earthquake that causes tremendous property damage. Something like this happened after Loma Prieta. But seismicity is not policy, and we should be ashamed to make the Hayward Fault do the work for us

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    10. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      The United States is a rich, powerful country full of enterprising people, so it can kind of coast along for a long time with a gridlocked, useless government. But our lives could be so much better! We need to send our young people abroad so they won't settle for what we have.

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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019

      All we need is *one* true high-speed rail link anywhere in the country outside the DC to Boston corridor, to anchor expectations. (We have to build the DC to Boston one last or journalists will stop covering the topic. Force them to endure Acela while Texas gets a shinkansen)

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        2. Robot Bastard!‏ @Robot_Bastard 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Pinboard

          “We need HSR! Good HSR! But, uh, not the one we’ve already got, because reasons.”

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        3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Robot_Bastard

          We don't have high-speed rail in the United States.

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        2. Ben Slusky‏ @syskill 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Pinboard

          There's no demand for a bullet train in Texas, and if you try to build one there then they'll all be foaming at the mouth about Jade Helm and shmitah all over again.

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        3. Ben Slusky‏ @syskill 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @syskill @Pinboard

          Right now the only part of the country where any demand for bullet trains exists, is the Acela corridor. If you want a shinkansen in California, you'd have to build an Acela first so they can see how inadequate it is.

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        1. Surtur‏ @Surtur 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Pinboard

          have planes stopped working

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        1. Laurence Rowe‏ @laurencerowe 30 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Pinboard

          HSR would be lovely but can we get functional regional and commuter rail too, electrifying and extending the lines we already have. Will serve 10x the number of passengers. Celebrate that Caltrain will soon be entering the 1970s!

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        1. drey‏ @OldDreyfusard 30 Dec 2019
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        1. Alon (they/them)‏ @alon_levy 30 Dec 2019
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          New York-New Haven: 116 km, 4 stops, 1:42 at $35 or 2:06 at $17.75 Amsterdam-Eindhoven: 119 km, 4 stops, 1:19 at €20.50 every 10 minutes

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        1. DCTrojan‏ @DCTrojan 31 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Pinboard

          Harsh but probably effective. (BTW as long as you avoid rush hour you can get from DC into Manhattan via bus almost as quickly as by train and for a fraction of the cost, which seems iffy)

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        2. Christof Spieler‏ @christofspieler 31 Dec 2019
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          Totally agree on high speed rail, and also that the Sacramento Northern was awesome. But it was actually slower than the Capitol Corridor is today. Their fastest train — the Comet — took 2:48 from Sacramento to SF in 1939. Capitol Corridor + Amtrak’s bus connection takes 2:10.

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        3. Christof Spieler‏ @christofspieler 31 Dec 2019
          Replying to @christofspieler @Pinboard

          (I haven’t found a schedule for the Southern Pacific service SF-Sacramento, which followed the route of today’s Capitol. That would have been the fastest trip SF-Sacramento then. The fact that we haven’t made that faster is embarrassing.)

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