re: PSA for you anti-train folks and government spending - Donald Trump is for bullet trains

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US cities are not laid out in a way that is conducive to trains. That isn't changing

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There are cities where they are because of trains. Like Atlanta. It was an important rail hub.


This is a bad take.


And that city has its own transit system.

Right and I don’t think a train across the country will even be worth while.

But you can connect closer largest cities to each other.

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The driverless car model won’t require you to buy one. You just summon it and use it to get to you location. Any location. Not just locations connected by railroad. And what will a line of driverless cars all going to atl from bhm be if not, in effect, a giant train. Driverless cars will put many industries out of business, the least of which will be passenger trains.

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Except cars take up far more space on a per-person basis.

I'd settle for just paving roads, expanding existing infrastructure in our fastest growing cities, and fixing the thousands of bridges we have that are all but falling down around our ears. But, hey......a shiny new train would be cool.