this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
626 points (98.0% liked)

Technology

59087 readers
3244 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Drop in the bucket, I’m curious how much it would take to make most of the US/NA traversable by high speed rail

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends on what you mean by most.

  • most of the population is quite achievable. Send a little time at https://www.ushsr.com/
  • most of the geography, trillions, and we couldn’t afford to keep it operating

I really think that confusing this is a common mistake. People claim high speed rail is impossible in the US because we’re big (and ignoring China, eu), but we have plenty of cities, and most of them are clustered. High speed rail is great for cities within a few hundred miles of each other. We got those, and that’s most of the population

It’s specious to take scenarios high speed rail doesn’t do well at and claiming that it means it can’t work. Let’s apply a little intelligence here’d and use the right technology for the right scenario

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Kids might say bajillions