USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change

I'll believe it when I see it ....

These projects are part of an $10 billion investment

California’s HSR system come in at $80 billion for 520 miles, or $154 million per mile. Amtrak estimates that it would cost $500 million per mile to turn its Northeast Corridor route into a true high-speed system. source

For $10 billion, we are talking an additional 20 to 65 miles of high speed rail to be built. This is basically nothing...

What a weak article. It's barely three paragraphs and contains basically no details. Here is the press release from the Dept of Transportation.

I wish them all the best! May this decision carry through administrations and the USA embrace fast, public transport once again.

Cool. It's just like, more than 20 years late, but cool

Barack Obama tried to do the same thing: https://time.com/3100248/high-speed-rail-barack-obama/

While I would love for this to be a reality, I just don't see it actually happening.

Until the Republicans shoot it down and instead use that budget to give their rich chums more tax breaks

It’ll take the US decades to get high-speed rail up and running, especially with its culture of litigation, property rights, regulatory capture and politicised overregulation of threats to incumbents, not to mention Citizens United and the ability of the aforementioned incumbents to buy laws and regulations. By then, climate change will have won.

United States will never be able to achieve something like this because tiny ass governments of little weird counties all across the country will complain about having tracks run through their stupid shit hole

i want this to be real. I've loved trains since i was a toddler. and as an adult Trains are some thicc power chungus

unfortunately the only trains left are either subways or commercial rails, yes there is Some passenger trains. But can you get to anywhere in americs on one? Not today, Not the infrastructure that will take decades to build and Not the follow up on promises made promises. kept...coughthebigdigbostoncough

(F40PH gang gang) back in my day we memed about objects, zoomers be all meta n shit. get out of my my head charles!

Will it though?

Wow. I’m so underwhelmed.

USA will invest in high speed train to... Return on investments made by lobbyists.

Came to this thread for my daily dose of trite cynicism. Was not disappointed.

Hopefully they don't pick internal systems that lock the train if you take it to a 3rd party repair business😆

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?

Wildly misleading title, USA has not made any concrete plans for the investment, and has a history of lying about everything.

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

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

pull the other one.

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

What about rails? You need rails first. Who is providing the land where rails will be built on?

But yeah, trains it is!

Why no superconducting maglev tho?

😂