thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 18 days agoAmeriKKKan incapable of understanding how another country is able to built High Speed Rail so they must be lyinghexbear.netimagemessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1imageAmeriKKKan incapable of understanding how another country is able to built High Speed Rail so they must be lyinghexbear.netthelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 18 days agomessage-square61linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·18 days ago “We can’t have HSR cuz big empty” You should have HSR because big empty HSR is astronomically easier to build through big flat empty
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·18 days agoBig mountainy empty is a bit harder, but China’s done that too
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·18 days agoIn present-day America you can take only L.
minus-squareKefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·18 days agoAt this point I’d honestly be willing to accept a functioning bus network. Even that isn’t available in my area.
minus-squareazimir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·18 days agoMy 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…
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up12·18 days agoI mean Amtrak exists, and goes through a lot of this empty area. But it’s stupidly expensive and takes literal days.
minus-squareTreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·18 days agoEveryone 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.
minus-squareGenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·18 days agoyou 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
minus-squarehappybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·18 days agoBut 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?
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?