We’re really gonna deal with less leg room, more baggage fees, doors falling off mid air and planes with no landing gear before this country considers high speed rail.
In case anyone needed a black pill on the future of US transit, high speed rail, etc, here you go. One party is altogether ideologically opposed to it and the other party is committed to making it as expensive as possible to build.
"Buy American isn't just about jobs, it's also about supply chains." So why exclude Japan or the Germany, close allies who are actually quite good at building things like trains? In any scenario where those supply chains break down, we have way bigger issue.
Today is a great day to remember that the entirety of our lived experience is on a tiny dot flying through the vast emptiness of space at 67,000 miles per hour.
Hug someone—and stop taking everything so seriously.