return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIs the US finally on track to build a high-speed rail network?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down110cross-posted to: bbc_us@rss.ponder.cat
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minus-squareMyOpinion@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoNo. Next question. This ass backward place is going back to the 1800s not the future.
minus-squareqantravon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoExcept we actually had nationwide, first class rail infrastructure in the 1800s. Most of it has since been torn up or laid fallow and left to rot.
minus-squareMyOpinion@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoWe did not have nationwide high speed rail and we still will not have high speed rail.
minus-squareEldritch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoYou, I appreciate your optimism. Though I think you may be a few hundred years off. But I’m sure we will see as America sleepwalks through this.
No. Next question. This ass backward place is going back to the 1800s not the future.
Except we actually had nationwide, first class rail infrastructure in the 1800s. Most of it has since been torn up or laid fallow and left to rot.
We did not have nationwide high speed rail and we still will not have high speed rail.
You, I appreciate your optimism. Though I think you may be a few hundred years off. But I’m sure we will see as America sleepwalks through this.