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Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't
- hulitu 3mo agoCalifornia has hyperloop.
- trolleski 3mo agoIt has billionaires, no need for trains for the paupers.
- utternerd 3mo agoAnd yet our state is still the fourth-largest economy in the world.
- Cornholio88 3mo agoMorocco GDP is comparatively choo choo
- Bolwin 3mo agoWhy is the title "Africa" and not Morocco
- gruntled-worker 3mo agoCalifornia has self-driving vehicle fleets which, once municipally-owned like the older transport infrastructure eventually became, work way better than trains for almost all trip ranges up to planes. The sweet spot is when the fleet gets large enough to ban non-SDVs from urban cores, removing the need for all parking and quadrupling system throughput.
- jsLavaGoat 3mo agoCalifornia has an advanced highway network that moves tens of millions of people and has clean air and water laws. It has a $15 minimum wage. It is also geographically enormous and yet you can be anywhere in the state in hours using said extensive highway network or air network. But go on lad.
- jsLavaGoat 3mo agoWe also don't have 60,000 people breaking down fences to escape. They just .... get in their cars and drive to other states.