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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change (www.raillynews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

as soon as the Republicans are elected with a full house they can shut this down and throw away all of the money that was put into it

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[–] Oaksey@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hasn’t this happened yet because of issues getting enough land in a relatively straight path between destinations? If the curves are too great either the G forces are too high for the passengers or the train isn’t able to travel at a high speed. Elon had his boring machine but I’m guessing the lack of news around that means it isn’t progressing as hoped?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Just an excuse.

Yes, it is more time consuming and expensive to acquire land than would be ideal, but protecting property owner rights is also important.

However most of the land needed was protected by freight rail and Amtrak. We already have most of the track right of way needed, at least in the Northeast and Midwest, and the expensive part is mainly little bits of land to straighten out curves. It could be worse

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The Boring Company is stating to sound like they will just use Teslas in the tunnels not any other form of transportation. So it’s a very lack luster project to say the least

https://www.boringcompany.com/loop https://www.boringcompany.com/products

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[–] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Anyone that's been on am amtrak knows exactly how well this will go.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

“Microsoft has just announced it’s brand new, innovative music experience: the Zune!”

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

pull the other one.

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