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SUBWAYS!!!!! Subways and electric rail networks are solved problems decades ago. If only Americans, forced their govts to invest more in rail networks. In India
by anaganisk 5y ago
SUBWAYS!!!!!
Subways and electric rail networks are solved problems decades ago.
If only Americans, forced their govts to invest more in rail networks.
In India I can travel pretty much northernmost to southernmost tip for $15.
In US it costs me more than a plane.
- jelliclesfarm 5y agoWe don’t even have bullet trains in America. There is MagLev in Disneyland..there’s that.. [..] The 2022 business plan estimates that the full, 500-mile high-speed system between Los Angeles and San Francisco will cost as much as $105 billion, up from $100 billion two years ago. In 2008, when voters approved a bond to help build the railroad, the authority estimated that the system would cost $33 billion.[..] Meanwhile.. in Bay Area: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/25/behind-schedule-and-breaking-down-is-barts-fleet-of-the-future-in-trouble/amp/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/25/behind-schedule-and-b...