So High Speed Rail isn't needed?

[rightwinger]

They provide roads and ports, but not boats and cars for everyone

Government does not provide trains

 

[westwall]

I used to go regularly to Alsace. It’s only one hour away from me by car.

I used to spend a lot of time in Stuttgart, great town. I love that region immensely.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I used to spend a lot of time in Stuttgart, great town. I love that region immensely.

A big Schloss in the centre of the city.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Europe has high speed rail
China has high speed rail
Japan has high speed rail
Even India has high speed rail

The US still uses 1980s technology

After seeing how the government has run Amtrak, do you really want more money wasted on high speed rail?

 

[struth]

Government does not provide trains

What's the Passenger Service Act?

 

[elektra]

Do you think air travel costs $2.00?

Nobody flies from Fresno California to Apple Valley California. Literally nobody.

crepitus, you think high speed rail will only be $2 to go to Fresno from Apple Valley?

 

[westwall]

A big Schloss in the centre of the city.

I spent more time in the Porsche factory.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I spent more time in the Porsche factory.

Ah.

Of course. lol.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

At least according to trump. Apparently air fare is only $2.00

Which is good because I need to fly back to Kansas and get my ID so I can buy some milk here.

Trump Says High-Speed Rail Isn’t Needed Because ‘You Take an Airplane – It Costs You $2’

The president alleged that high-speed rail would be a less efficient and more expensive alternative than air travel, which in his estimation, costs $2.

www.mediaite.com

“We’re gonna start a big investigation on that because it’s– I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, you don’t buy it. You take an airplane – it costs you $2. It costs you nothing. You take an airplane. But this got started. And if you have to, you drive, you can drive.”

Our brown and black population makes any sort of mass transportation unworkable

 

[Orangecat]

Not bullet trains

Same tech, just refined to be faster. Think better, toad.

 

[Orangecat]

Anarchist

No, fool, just not needing a nanny state daddy like you.

 

[rightwinger]

After seeing how the government has run Amtrak, do you really want more money wasted on high speed rail?

Yes

Amtrak equipment is ancient as are much of the rails
We need a modern rail network.
Both Commercial and passenger

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Yes

Amtrak equipment is ancient as are much of the rails
We need a modern rail network.
Both Commercial and passenger

Amtrak loses $1 billion a year. Tell us why we want to multiply that lost money?

 

[Orangecat]

Fast and fancy French train. Taking another one in July.

Probably a nice ride. does it turn a profit for those who built it? Break even? Heavily subsidized?

 

[Polishprince]

Small towns don’t have interstates either
They have to drive local roads to reach interstate highways and then get off and drive local roads to get to another small town

Actually a lot of smaller urban areas are fully accessible by interstate.

Look at the list of exits for I-80, one of the nation's most tremendous interstate highways.

Emlenton, Clarion, Dubois, etc., are not major cities by any stretch of the word.

Interstate 80 Exit Guide | Pennsylvania Highways

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Actually a lot of smaller urban areas are fully accessible by interstate.

Clogged up with traffic.

 

[Missourian]

Amtrak needs government support to project new rail lines over public and private lands.

The Northeast Corridor is highly profitable but in rundown condition. It needs to be modernized

You should start raising money. Maybe open a lemonade stand.

 

[Crepitus]

That wasn't the question

It's a serious question though, considering your Orange Ghod apparently does.

 

[Crepitus]

Tell us the costs of building all of the New York subway/elevated lines today if they never existed as an example. You Progs would not have. We have massive infrastructure in our prog cities that benefit from labor that was not Prog. And they cannot even keep renovations and upgrades without massive tax increases or federal government help.

Do you think air fare costs $2.00?

 

[Crepitus]

The difference between train travel and air travel is that libs have to pay full price for flying whereas government can pay for some or mist of their ticket on a train

For libs that's the beauty of marxism

Why do you make up nonsense and expect to be believed?