L4sBotAug 11, 2023

Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas

https://lemmy.world/post/3014804

Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas - Lemmy.world

Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.

Show threadjust_another_personAug 11, 2023
Elorn will find a way to get it scrapped like he did in california.
Show threadđź‘ŤMaximum Derekđź‘ŤAug 11, 2023
This. We’d have a high speed rail going between San Diego and Seattle by now if Mush hadn’t gotten everyone exploring hyperloop (a concept we’ve known to be terrible for over a century now).
Show threadinfotainment

As fun as it is to watch Musk do dumb stuff, giving him credit for killing HSR is a reach. There’s a really great article about it here — even Epstein was involved for some reason!

nytimes.com/…/california-high-speed-rail-politics…

How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails

America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.

The New York Times
Aug 11, 2023 at 7:11pmWeb
Show threadBuddahrifficAug 11, 2023
And at this point, who is going to listen to anything he says and think that they’d want him having any kind of control over something he talks about even if it does sound like a good idea?