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(DIR) Post #AmF8Nr5rZn98gPxCmu by foone@digipres.club
2024-09-21T23:15:43Z
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Why doesn't the bay area have a Shinkansen? Have you ever been on the 880 or 101 during a day?Instead of spending an hour a day driving through a parking lot, you could have a 200 mile an hour train."yeah I live in Milpitas and work in SF. The commute is really terrible, it's 20 minutes each way and nearly 5 entire dollars."
(DIR) Post #AmF8mqxzBZpPWqBnhg by foone@digipres.club
2024-09-21T23:17:32Z
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People are always hand-wringing about how building high speed rail in the US is so hard because it's so big...Well the bay area isn't big! It's tiny and has terrible roads. We've got the money, build bullet trains damn it.Make sure Elon isn't allowed to comment on it. I want trains not the promise of a weird tube in a decade that never gets built and wouldn't work anyway
(DIR) Post #AmF94kSq6GSMZg9bGK by 0x00string@infosec.exchange
2024-09-21T23:23:36Z
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@foone having ridden a 150mph train across an entire country just today... yeah... we deserve high speed rail in the US.
(DIR) Post #AmF9I1rQjO8gIGzMLw by invis@glaceon.social
2024-09-21T23:25:01Z
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@foone Something I like to point out is that Hawaii is actually quite small, and yet they still use cars. Despite the fact that they have to ship both the cars and the gasoline over, since Hawaii isn't exactly known for its oil fields.why are there cars in hawaii. come on. you could be the next mackinac island if you believe in yourself.
(DIR) Post #AmF9kjadjyLy1ep5JA by zarchasmpgmr@infosec.exchange
2024-09-21T23:32:21Z
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@foone Caltrain flipped the switch today! Something I’ve been wanting for *checks watch* 35 years
(DIR) Post #AmFAMV8bvBVYCvillo by alanthecampbell@techhub.social
2024-09-21T23:39:16Z
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@foone He's made a particular dick comment whinging about high speed rail taking so long/much money to develop when HE was responsible for tanking it in California as I recall.
(DIR) Post #AmFAZBzyONDic2jU4O by raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-09-21T23:41:51Z
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@foone when we do put in commuter rail we put it in the dumbest way possible to "maximize profit" too though :/I have a rail station near my house that I could technically take to go to the neighboring cities without driving....but the drive is 20 minutes to the first, 80 minutes to the major city...the train runs twice a day for $100 and takes almost 3 hours....and they wonder why nobody uses it.
(DIR) Post #AmFBX54dGe9AViT8KG by bujold@dice.camp
2024-09-21T23:52:33Z
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@foone Yes, but have you considered: Sparsely populated places exist somewhere in the same country, bringing down the national average population density, and that's the only number that decides if trains are worth it. Checkmate, transit advocates. I am very smart.
(DIR) Post #AmFBeOhGhvDVOj1swK by ouguoc@mastodon.online
2024-09-21T23:52:50Z
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@foone have you ridden the new electric caltrains? they're pretty great (though nowhere near global HSR standards)
(DIR) Post #AmFBvawMRKgiIEHzSi by seachanger@alaskan.social
2024-09-21T23:56:33Z
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@foone I recently joined the high speed rail alliance and recommend it (only $35 and I get a cool shirt)they email updates and have all the current plans mapped. hsr is under construction apparently in the Central Valley https://www.hsrail.org/california-is-building-high-speed-rail/
(DIR) Post #AmFEl1WZYnyzQ2sTs8 by StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-09-22T00:28:40Z
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@foone because of Marin and Atherton
(DIR) Post #AmFJeon8UHevxiUA8u by PJ_Evans@mas.to
2024-09-22T01:23:34Z
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@foone Even 80 miles/hour isn't bad. I was taking the train 30 miles into downtown L.A., and it was a 45 minute trip, most days, with several stops and a section where we could hit 79.
(DIR) Post #AmFJnaXKr8FuMFHE2a by PJ_Evans@mas.to
2024-09-22T01:24:13Z
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@foone 880? Oh, yeah, the Nimitz, AKA CA-17.
(DIR) Post #AmFLR7wUghl7DCShii by ChuckMcManis@chaos.social
2024-09-22T01:43:34Z
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@foone Back in 2002 I dived *really* deeply into this rabbit hole. Why doesn't California have high speed passenger rail?The fundamental reason is that the state doesn't "own" the right of way, the freight railroads though legacy grants own all the track and right of way. And they won't give permission to the state to use it.So one solution, using eminent domain to acquire new right of way, is very unpopular.
(DIR) Post #AmFORUb4l5PBKuJG4W by coxn@infosec.exchange
2024-09-22T02:16:51Z
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@foone https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-lost-subways-of-north-america/
(DIR) Post #AmFUV32RlIFEkSBtMe by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
2024-09-22T03:25:12Z
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@foone The sucky part is that the Apartheid Brat literally already did that. He announced his stupid Hyperloop project *specifically* to kill a HSR proposal by becoming the "free market solution" to the problem, and policymakers just went with it, and then he quietly let it go absolutely nowhere. -.-Cali was *so* *close* to getting high speed rail, until that fucking manchild got involved.
(DIR) Post #AmFiMkScLghUAhMugq by acb@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T06:00:07Z
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@foone IRC, it’s a combination of regulatory capture (huge freight rail companies own existing rights of way and oppose anything that might reduce profit), a litigious culture (landowners along new paths demanding every cent they can get, i.e. what killed the Texas HSR plan), regulations making it expensive, and American exceptionalism leading to incuriosity about how other countries achieve things and reinventing the wheel only worse ( @Alon has a lot to say about that)
(DIR) Post #AmFmJkA3PBU2BtVZei by gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-09-22T06:44:48Z
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@foone the center of the US being a big pile of mountain make est-west transcontinental difficult but connecting sandiego to seattle would certainly be doable
(DIR) Post #AmGFjWNs9F83f5cEng by UpLateGeek@bitbang.social
2024-09-22T12:06:10Z
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@foone sorry, Elon Musk said he wants to sell more Teslas, so the government said OK and gave him the money to not build a tunnel instead.
(DIR) Post #AmHS8e1SHLi9CQpuYS by crzwdjk@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T02:07:57Z
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@foone The Bay Area does have a Shinkansen of sorts (a new, fast railway built on new lines, mostly elevated, and with an incompatible track gauge for some reason): BART. The problem is that at the time it was planned, the main use case was being a suburban parking shuttle for Financial District jobs.
(DIR) Post #AmJaRiBoCLGrZhCZgO by vxo@digipres.club
2024-09-24T02:50:05Z
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@foone that and connections to Stockton, Tracy, Davis, Sacramento, Vacaville, and Fairfield at least
(DIR) Post #AmJc04qSZTQzdkAORc by alexglow@chaos.social
2024-09-24T03:07:39Z
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@foone Yep... and Musk did that on purpose. https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788
(DIR) Post #AmJeXYGEQQ3MKsJKYi by pinjontall@sfba.social
2024-09-24T03:36:20Z
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@foone I dream of a Californian Shinkansen