Just how much Tylenol is consumed in Japan?
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Why is there no connection between Niigata and Yonezawa?
Mountains, I assume.
So if you must travel between these two towns you'd need to go via Fukushima.
Edit: And a national park
New conspiracy theory: Tylenol actually does cause autism. But China figured out that autism is the key to a better society and they are pushing RFK to ban it so that we remain self-destructive neurotypicals.
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Based on the latest Silent Hill, a lot.
The REAL US Tylenol Map
Thank you. I was kind of offended with the other one for implying I would neglect a huge region.
Nah, Idaho can get fucked.
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I expect better of the rail network in America. This is a tiny network for the size country we are.
These poor people have such a bad rail network that even their dreams are limited...
I felt that one as a Brazilian (govt literally went "fuck trains, cars are the future!" for ~30 years starting in the 1950s)
The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.
it takes me 24 hours to go by train the same distance it takes me to fly 1.5 hours. and the cost is the same. there are some problems.
This has more to do with how commuter trains are forced to give priority to freight trains, causing delays, than actual travel times
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why do all tracks lead to Florida?
Its the other way around, there needs to be as many ways to get out of Florida as possible.
One reason for this is hurricanes are more frequent, and sometimes the notice level is too short to have safe evacuation from Miami through highway systems. There has been anger over deaths from evacuation, when a storm warning did not destroy as many homes as was "hoped"/feared.
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A bunch of individual reasons.
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Nasa historically moved a lot of big stuff over rail.
Florida has a shit ton of Agriculture but a lack of raw materials
Tourism
It's flat as hell
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Is really the big reason. Less and less portage is going through the traditional East Coast hubs of NY and NJ, mostly going to places like Louisiana , Texas, and Florida instead.
Historically Florida has always been pretty big on trains as well. In fact you used to be able to take a train from Florida to Cuba....kinda. You could take a train across the overseas rail line to Key West where they would ferry the whole train car over to Cuba.
We used to be an actual country that did stuff, and that's because we weren't afraid to do cool stuff with trains.
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I assume the gray gaps are due to red states refusing to get on the Tylenol/Autism Train, but I can't believe, if the Autist Party were in power, they wouldn't insist on connecting ALL the dots.
It's kind of weird too because logistically the northern border is the easiest place to expand rails: big flat great planes region, with both of the two largest rivers for ferrying in supplies, followed by a bypass around the bulk of the rocky mountains into Oregon or Washington State.
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I don’t get it
Trains are a common special interest of people with autism.
I know two neurodivergent people that love trains, one is into models and the other trainspotting. They are correct too, trains are awesome.
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Then I must be autistic then, because I love trains and dream of having high speed rail.
It's okay to find out new things about yourself. 🙂
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The most efficient would be 3 major east/west lines, Boston to Seattle, DC to San Francisco, and Atlanta to LA, connected by a series of north/south lines to form a grid. On the east coast, just extend the Acela down to Atlanta.
You need to hit major centres and you need to consider common trips to be efficient. You’re talking about the most efficient per station but most efficient per passenger is going to look different. This image doesn’t see too bad and can still have branching lines.
The biggest concern with that setup is how inefficient it is to reach the Pacific Northwest region, LA is a serious bottleneck on top of being a common endpoint in and of itself. A line that goes straight to either Seattle or Portland from the Northeast simplifies things a lot.
The problem is that population distribution means that almost nobody is going to be getting on or off the train between Minneapolis and Seattle. The population of North Dakota is 800k, South Dakota is 925k, Nebraska is 2 million, Montana is 1.1 million, Wyoming is 590k, Idaho is 2 million. That's nearly a whole quadrant of the country with less population than the Houston metro area. If we're building trains, let's build trains in Houston and serve the same number of people with like a tiny percentage of track that it would take to serve the upper plains states.
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Umm yeah...now we are autisming! Though I'm not autistic as a disclaimer.
I would think that Kansas City would be a bigger hub since it already has a lot of rail through there and is more central in the country.
for freight, not passenger rail, which is what high-speed rail is primarily designed for
But dood. Put a USPS fishbowl-connected car on the end with a sorter working inside and prepping for each stop, and watch FedEx sweat.
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