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| Topic | How come we don't have bullet trains in America? |
| BB_mofo 07/23/23 1:39:34 PM #39: | LeCh0nk posted... Car and oil companies give a lot of brib-donations to political parties, and like with universal healthcare, they've brainwashed everyone into thinking trains are bad. Standard Oil and Goodyear Tires explicitly bought out and destroyed all the street cars in the United States to force everyone to buy cars. The freeway was their idea to replace it. The only reason San Francisco still has their electric streetcars is because the city stepped in and made the trolleys a public service paid mainly with tax payer dollars. Hospy posted... Requires the cooperation of a metric boatload of different organizations and communities to plan and build rail Bakersfield passed a law that says any train has to slow down to 30mph within its city limits. On top of that, after the planned line was announced, they rushed to build homeless shelters on top of it. Bakersfield is a Republican stronghold. --- "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" -Mark Twain ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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