re: 310 mph train in Japan drives by. Don't blink or you may miss it.

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HubbaBubba
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Spoken like a true lobbyist shill for the airline industry.

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Found the straight up moron of the board. Get out of your mother's basement and experience reality more. Try for the first time in your life to build something. I promise it won't hurt.....much.

were Women were being lit on fire in the 1960s when the Japanese high speed trains were first being built? why not build them then?

the car and airplane industry will lobby against decent public transportation

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That’s exactly the issue.

If you invest more in all aspects of public transit (infrastructure, safety, personnel, etc.) the ridership will change.

People don’t avoid public transit because they have cars. They have cars because our cities are set up to need cars. We aren’t any different than Europeans on the whole. We are a human population just like them.

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US population density - About 36 people per square km

EU population density - About 110 people per square km

Their climate is also very mild compared to ours. There are no 105 degree days in any major EU population center, and likewise the all time low temp record is -1 F in Brussels, as just one example. At that temp, people in Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis are breaking out the shorts and firing up grills. It's easy to make a city "walkable" when you don't have Alabama thunderstorms, Texas heat, or Louisiana humidity to worry about.

Yeah, we're just like them, except that we're not.

Like others have said, it’s a pipe dream. I wish we could have trains running in every direction out of every city. But the reality is that we’re a car centric nation and that will never change.

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Way to come out the gate full of anti-western and anti-American bias.

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I see you hate truth.

We're planning for short term profit. "They" are planning for years down the road.

If you want to understand the difference, research how China came to dominate EV/Hybrid production.

We literally threw money at the problem, they built an entire infrastructure which blows ours away.

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Why don't we have this between DFW/Houston/Austin/San Antonio?

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Is there even enough travel between them to justify it? And specifically, enough travel between city center to city center (this is a bigger issue in Texas than anywhere else)

The only high speed rail that would be useful outside of the Northeast corridor is if airlines operated routes between hubs and nearby smaller airports (ie. Birmingham/HSV/Chattanooga to Atlanta, Des Moines/MKE/Indy to ORD, etc.). I have to imagine airlines lose money on these routes and eliminating 6-10 flights could be appealing

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310 mph train in Japan

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Imagine the gas being saved

Holi fuk

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1. There are no environmental impact studies in Japan. Right here in CenTex alone entire major projects have been halted or faced major alterations because of a previously unknown cave beetle and blind cave salamanders discovered at the development sites. Now you want to dig a 100' deep x 100' wide track foundation the length of Texas, and you think you won't hit something of interest?

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frick those beetles and blind lizards. We’re the first era of human kind to halt production because some “previously unknown” insect may be harmed. Absolute lunacy. frick those turtles in California too…pussies will empty their bladders at the first sign of distress…that species doesn’t deserve to be here.