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The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.
We can't build mass transit because then we might need to build more mass transit.
Also, it would be entirely impossible to expand local mass transit after the intrastate rail broke ground but before it was finished. Couldn't be done. But we somehow can completely rewire I-45 to facilitate more interstate trucking.
I think you Death Noted them, because HB 3187 made it through the House Transportation Committee an hour or two after you posted this comment. It would effectively kill DART (a ~30% service reduction).
Oh, I knew the feds had cancelled grant money to it, I didn't know the state killed it. I know they're all in the pocket of big oil, but it's just wild to me how trains are apparently woke.
At least in Houston, the transit isn't horrible if you stay in the inner loop. They gave a few rail lines and the buses run frequently there, so it's probably fine in theory. But if you have to leave the inner core...
Well, you've got to start somewhere. CAHSR has been the impetus for a lot of sprawled out central valley cities to get their shit together. Fresno is probably the prime example of this. We're trying to drag Merced into getting its shit together, though kicking and screaming it may be.
Displacing minorities is a feature. Otherwise Those People might build up generational wealth, and eventually start considering themselves white people’s equals. POSIWID.
TIL a new acronym, but one doesn't need to infer the purpose of the system from what it does. The designers of the system said out loud that segregation was a feature. They gave speeches and wrote memos about it.
Steal land. Sell it. Let the locals improve it. Steal it again. Sell it. Let the locals improve it. If anyone complains, tell them that you shouldn't care about the latest set of owners because they bought it off you when you stole it from the last set of owners.
Don't ask who profits. It's definitely not six families who showed up wealthy and have only ever been getting richer for the last century.
If it was a new interstate or an extra lane on the Katy freeway, nobody would be saying shit. My favorite example is how there's in interstate project in the northeast that's pretty much as overbudget as CAHSR and basically nobody is talking shit about it.