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re: YouTube - Driving Is Ruining Our Lives
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:56 pm to fallguy_1978
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:56 pm to fallguy_1978
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It would only be beneficial between mega cities and that's just not the way the US is laid out. Nobody is building a high-speed rail system been Hammond and Lafayette.
Yeah I know. I’m think I got off a system that basically follows the interstate system. Could be clean too if we had a full on nuclear power grid. Obviously not stops at every city. For instance along I-10 in Louisiana there could be stops in Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Let’s say you wanted to get to LA from BR. If you could get that down to say a 20 hour trip by rail compared to say a total of 10 hours by air it could be viable. You’d be more comfortable and well rested. It would be an adjustment for sure but I still think there’s a market for it. Air travel is so miserable these days. At least on a train you can have dining cars and bar cars. They’re roomier and if you wanted to splurge you can even get a sleeper car.
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Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:57 pm to fallguy_1978
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It's why that rail system idea between Nola and BR is stupid
Light rail (possibly commuter) running multiple times an hour is a better solution in this case. Which would mean isolating the tracks or having dedicated rights.
Unfortunately, like you insinuated, the people in politicians ears are from the rail companies and selling them the same bullshite agreement we have now. They say passenger trains have the first right, but they stack the rails with trains that are too long for the rail design and by default freight takes priority.
This post was edited on 8/26/23 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:58 pm to fightin tigers
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Toll roads vs tax payer funded roads would solve a lot of sprawl we now see.
Agreed. Cut my taxes that go to pay for highways to zero and let the people that use it pay for it.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:58 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Cut my taxes that go to pay for highways to zero and let the people that use it pay for it.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:59 pm to crazy4lsu
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Are you having a stroke? You are writing like a Boomer.
spiraling Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:59 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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People don't like stepping over addicts and beggars, which happens in this country. shite, the mile walk to the train in Pasadena a couple of years ago was unpleasant. The train was worse.
Have you ever ridden a train? Your description sounds like a movie and nothing like reality.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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If its "public" most aren't riding it and it fails.
People don't like stepping over addicts and beggars, which happens in this country. shite, the mile walk to the train in Pasadena a couple of years ago was unpleasant. The train was worse.
I made the mistake of getting talked into taking the train to the airport from downtown Denver. Never again.
This post was edited on 8/26/23 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:01 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Agreed. Cut my taxes that go to pay for highways to zero and let the people that use it pay for it.
People would find the real cost of what they have done by destroying actual local towns in exchange for bedroom communities disguised as small towns.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:03 pm to fightin tigers
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Have you ever ridden a train? Your description sounds like a movie and nothing like reality.
Ehh thats pretty close to my experience with the train in downtown Denver to the airport. Just throw in that the terminal and train both smelled like a urinal and you're there.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:06 pm to fightin tigers
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People would find the real cost of what they have done
I'd have no problem paying.
We developed organically this way until the interstates were built. it was natural. I have less of an issue with the status quo that the urban baws I guess.
This post was edited on 8/26/23 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:07 pm to billjamin
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Ehh thats pretty close to my experience with the train in downtown Denver to the airport.
That's something like a $3-5 one way trip (about 35minites). Then you get kicked off.
And your premise is that homeless and druggies are booking that regularly. I know they are bad at money, but that seems far fetched.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:08 pm to fightin tigers
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And your premise is that homeless and druggies are booking that regularly.
I doubt many homeless are going to the Denver Airport.
Regular train runs, you bet its full of them.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:09 pm to QJenk
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I guarantee op posts on r/frickcars
Wrong. Off to a bad start, pal. Let's continue reading.
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I'm all for public transportation. Poorer people who can't afford a car should have viable transportation in the forms of buses/trains.
An improvement. Why only focus on the poor? Why not advocate to make cities better for all by reducing car dependency?
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But for the ppl on that subreddit wants to ban all cars. They want to ban all single family homes. Their definition of a utopia is everyone lives in tiny apartments and forced to rely on bikes or public transportation to ever travel anywhere. frick that.
And we went off the rails full retard schizo posting about something no-one in this thread advocates for.
Good try, sport. Maybe you will get it next time.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:09 pm to fightin tigers
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And your premise is that homeless and druggies are booking that regularly. I know they are bad at money, but that seems far fetched.
Idk what they’re doing. Maybe just hopping on to take a piss by the smell. Either way they’re there and around. It’s not really disputable.
You also realize that train doesn’t only go to the airport?
This post was edited on 8/26/23 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:10 pm to crazy4lsu
Look what I've been able to get out of you, simply by declining to follow your tangent. You might as well be posting this on your aunt's Facebook.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:11 pm to jclem11
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Why not advocate to make cities better for all by reducing car dependency?
Because most people like cars and independence, and will not ride public transportation. People don't like to shop at Walmart either, same crowd.
This post was edited on 8/26/23 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:12 pm to jclem11
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By design due to the mass adoption of the car in the 1940s and 1950s
No it’s because of the size of our country. We have a lot of space so we spread out.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:12 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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Look what I've been able to get out of you, simply by declining to follow your tangent. You might as well be posting this on your aunt's Facebook.
Good god, talk about tangents. Poor thing.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:13 pm to Undertow
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No it’s because of the size of our country. We have a lot of space so we spread out.
Exactly. Its organic.
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:14 pm to crazy4lsu
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Good god, talk about tangents. Poor thing.
Remember, I wasn't talking to you. I made my point. You wanted to make yours, and I didn't engage that stupidity.
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