@pluralistic two unintended consequences of the move towards electric vehicles is that they are at their best on short journeys, not travelling transcontinental.
And they are also at their best at speeds under 40 miles an hour, becoming very greedy over 60.

Both of these factors will help modal shift to mass transit across longer distances and should help to reduce average traffic speeds.

@brianary @peterbrown @pluralistic Then weigh-in in favor of CA's HSR project when billionaire-owned papers like the NYT run hit-pieces or someone uses the word "boondoggle" to describe it (nobody uses "boondoggle". That word came down as a requirement in a memo because some rich-fogey thinks they know better).

Help us keep the air clear and get the HSR built and people like me will help by raising our voices when the CA project is complete to continue extending the rails north towards Seattle.

@arandmoor
@peterbrown @pluralistic
I don't really read newspapers, in part due to them being by and for fogeys.

Seattle was on a good path until one engineer set them back, probably by a decade. Who knows when Spokane, created as a rail town, will get any kind of decent service. Right now, it's about 2am LSR or nothing.