>>1989809
That's a great idea, we should remove speed limits and encourage everyone to buy hellcats and drive at 220mph.

I wish we had le trains
I wish the feds would force every state to have an intrastate rail system that would also feed into an interstate pipeline

>>1989809
>Be in Seattle
>Want to go anywhere but California
>Haha fuck you, airplanes are le bourgeoisie hope you have a week to get wherever

>>1989809
>take existing/former conventional rail routes
>slap high speed label on them and be done with it
if you're going to rebuild a rail network to hsr, might as well put some thought into which routes make sense
have fun building a new transcon to 220mph standards lol

>>1989809
>slower railroad going into 2 places can replace air travel

>>1989809
how the fuck do you route HSR through the grand canyons and rocky mountains to get to Utah

>>1989809
>those lines crossing huge mountains with no regard

>>1989999
nice digits, anyway if you're in seattle there's only three places to go: vancouver, california, or the east coast. everything else is flyover hell and the only safe choice is to fly over it

>>1989809
>This image has been circulating the internet for 10 years
>This means it makes sense and should be implemented.

>>1989999
It's on purpose so that they're less likely to leave their containment zone.

>>1989809
>lines on a map drawn without thinking will displace the airlines
huh

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>>1989809

Fuck HSR

Build the American Breitspurbahn.

>takes longer
>costs more
>less flexibility
>order of magnitude more land usage

I wonder why we don't have passenger trains going everywhere...

>>1991709
>takes longer
>costs more
>less flexibility
>order of magnitude more land usage
than what? airplanes, HSR is faster under 300km and plane routes are hardly flexible. planes are also massively worse for the environment and are a pain in the ass to board and uncomfortable to boot.

>>1991716
>and plane routes are hardly flexible
How do you figure?
>planes are also massively worse for the environment
I simply do not care

fuck i live in a favela

>>1991706
N E E D
Put a small nuclear reactor instead of relying on conventional fuel and you would have a proto snowpiercer.

>>1991716
>300km
This is America, I piss 300km.
Thats why trains work in Europe, but planes just make sense here. This country is 5000km wide.

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>>1989827
haha yeah that would be wild

>>1992316
Yes planes make sense for coast to coast travel in America. But that's not the majority of air traffic in the US. Anything under 10 - 12 hour train travel is comfier on a train. If it's shorter than ~3 hours on a train you're getting from city center to city center faster than on a plane in most cases. On longer trips night trains are mega comfy way to travel. Hop on a train, sleep a full night in a proper bed, wake up in your destination next morning. And all that without having to get to the airport early so you can queue into getting molested and then wait for your plane, only to land way off from where you most likely want to go to.

>>1992514
Wow!