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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @Pinboard
TFW you wish for millions of people to die in a natural disaster because you want a zoomy choo-choo
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Show me on the doll where I said I want an earthquake?
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