"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
06/14/2017 at 16:25 • Filed to: Trainlopnik
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"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
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Per the most powerful man in America, Jared Kushner. No word on when work will begin on the space elevator. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Ash78, voting early and often
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:28 |
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Harriet is not amused.
MrDakka
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:33 |
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So an East Coast version of California High Speed Rail?
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For Sweden
> Ash78, voting early and often
06/14/2017 at 16:35 |
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NYC appropriated that long ago.
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For Sweden
> MrDakka
06/14/2017 at 16:35 |
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But U N D E R G R O U N D
Rico
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:36 |
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Someone get Musk on the horn, we’re going to need a bigger drill.
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For Sweden
> Rico
06/14/2017 at 16:37 |
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No, battery fires underground are bad
deekster_caddy
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:38 |
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CP. Besides it’s already too expensive to take the Acela train to DC, what makes them think this will be less expensive to operate?
Hell we can’t even get a highway interchange approved. You know how many NIMBY peeps are gonna ruin this? You aren’t running that underneath MY property!!!
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Rico
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:40 |
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Like bad-bad or Michael Jackson: Bad?
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:41 |
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They can’t even build new fucking replacement tunnels under the goddamn fucking Hudson fucking river and this god damn fucking cock slap thinks they’re going to build a whole new fucking rail line!?
This dude is clueless.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> deekster_caddy
06/14/2017 at 16:41 |
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Yup, its cheaper to fly most of the time!
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For Sweden
> deekster_caddy
06/14/2017 at 16:44 |
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I’m sure the locals will understand that trains will save the environment.
Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 16:45 |
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...stop that; they cant even get Amtrak to run properly or make communting via train from NJ into NY semi bearable
itschrome
> Rico
06/14/2017 at 16:47 |
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same?
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For Sweden
> Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
06/14/2017 at 16:50 |
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You doubt the Kush?
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Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
> For Sweden
06/14/2017 at 17:00 |
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Yes snoop dog i do
Textured Soy Protein
> deekster_caddy
06/14/2017 at 17:10 |
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I wish Acela were cheaper because overall the experience of riding a train is so much more pleasant than flying. Roomy seats, no TSA, no stupid baggage fees, no nonsensical priority boarding groups that serve only to create aggravation that can be be relieved by signing up for a credit card.
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Rico
> itschrome
06/14/2017 at 17:14 |
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TorqueToYield
> Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
06/14/2017 at 17:16 |
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Yea, I’d take a train tunnel from NJ to Manhattan that isn’t over 100 years old to start with. Just one. Like, there probably should be 15 or something by now, but I’d settle for just one new one.
Also, Fuck Chris Christie for many reasons but especially for cancelling the ARC tunnel.
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deekster_caddy
> Textured Soy Protein
06/15/2017 at 14:42 |
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Yeah, it sounds great but I’ve never done it. The only people I know who use Acela for Boston to NY or DC are business travelers.
It can even be a little quicker than flying Boston to NY just because you are avoiding the hassles of flying - quicker to board, and you arrive downtown in NYC, so the business guys like it. But for us ‘regular folk’ it’s too expensive.
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Textured Soy Protein
> deekster_caddy
06/15/2017 at 15:15 |
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I’ve taken regular Amtrak between DC and Philadelphia a few times. Even that is a much better experience than flying. For the shorter distance it’s not even that much longer of a trip than Acela, because while Acela’s top speed is obviously much higher, it has to slow down for turns (because it runs on the same regular Amtrak tracks which don’t have gradual-radius turns like true high speed rail systems) and stops.
I wish high speed rail was more prevalent and better priced in the US but it’s not happening anytime soon. Hell, here in Wisconsin, one of the first things Scott Walker did when he was elected governor was turn down $800 million in federal high speed rail funding for the Wisconsin section of a Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison-Minneapolis high speed rail line because the state would be responsible for a small portion of the ongoing operational costs. He even campaigned on that. Then he went and spent a bunch of the state’s money on (much needed) road construction. Some folks noted that he received many large campaign contributions from paving companies which they accused him off favoring over the train.