If you drove through 90% of that UK-sized landmass, you’d see nothing. Pure, blissful, mind-numbing nothingness. The American West fucking stunned me when I saw how much open space there is. Maybe five cities across that entire area would make the route economical. I still want it more than anything else for the region though.
But what if that big flat empty was filled with cow demons and corn demons who feed the cow demons for beef that most of the people in the big flat empty can’t afford now?
they literally genocided natives just to do nothing with most of the land. it’s pathetic. but i’m supposed to be in awe because of cowboys or something
Okay, to be fair, Wyoming should be empty because that shit is insane. One time, I had my HEAVY WINTER COAT in the back seat when I went to fill up gas and thought, “I’ll hop out of the car real quick and put it on”. Buddy, that coat got raptured. It was in Nebraska before I knew what hit me.
Driving through Wyoming is so uniquely terrifying that I don’t do it unless the weather is perfect. I-25 to Cheyenne is considered tame by their standards and the winds are so high that it throws your car around while tipping over 18-wheelers. There are a lot of Colorado roads that I only travel seasonally, but we are so tame compared to Wyoming’s obsession with wind. They need to stop with that shit.
I have a vivid memory of driving in whiteout conditions in Wyoming but sandwiched by semis that I couldn’t even see, so I couldn’t afford to slow down. I could only rely on google maps to make sure the road stayed straight. 20 minutes later, absolutely beautiful day. Unhinged state
If you drove through 90% of that UK-sized landmass, you’d see nothing. Pure, blissful, mind-numbing nothingness. The American West fucking stunned me when I saw how much open space there is. Maybe five cities across that entire area would make the route economical. I still want it more than anything else for the region though.
You should have HSR because big empty
HSR is astronomically easier to build through big flat empty
Big mountainy empty is a bit harder, but China’s done that too
Forget HSR. I’d take R.
In present-day America you can take only L.
At this point I’d honestly be willing to accept a functioning bus network. Even that isn’t available in my area.
My old city in the US essentially lost even the regional bus systems. It’s still sort of running, but outsourced and on time is a myth.
It’s a city of 600k metro pop, and still can’t have basic transit services because… Just because…
I mean Amtrak exists, and goes through a lot of this empty area. But it’s stupidly expensive and takes literal days.
Everyone always forgets that the cities develop around the trains, not the other way around.
Back in the day it was the rivers, because that was the major method of transport.
People just like, don’t know how things develop at all.
you build a settler in a city and send them over to a big empty area, check the yields and just plop down a city. Name it: EagleScreech or some such
But what if that big flat empty was filled with cow demons and corn demons who feed the cow demons for beef that most of the people in the big flat empty can’t afford now?
they literally genocided natives just to do nothing with most of the land. it’s pathetic. but i’m supposed to be in awe because of cowboys or something
Think of what we’ve done for the cows. They hate us because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.
Okay, to be fair, Wyoming should be empty because that shit is insane. One time, I had my HEAVY WINTER COAT in the back seat when I went to fill up gas and thought, “I’ll hop out of the car real quick and put it on”. Buddy, that coat got raptured. It was in Nebraska before I knew what hit me.
https://youtube.com/shorts/5MpDl7wzpxE
Driving through Wyoming is so uniquely terrifying that I don’t do it unless the weather is perfect. I-25 to Cheyenne is considered tame by their standards and the winds are so high that it throws your car around while tipping over 18-wheelers. There are a lot of Colorado roads that I only travel seasonally, but we are so tame compared to Wyoming’s obsession with wind. They need to stop with that shit.
I have a vivid memory of driving in whiteout conditions in Wyoming but sandwiched by semis that I couldn’t even see, so I couldn’t afford to slow down. I could only rely on google maps to make sure the road stayed straight. 20 minutes later, absolutely beautiful day. Unhinged state
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: