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AccordionBruce
@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru
We’ve been talking about high speed rail in the obvious routes like Vancouver to Portland for decades

I honestly think the only possible way any of them will ever be built is after the ever expected 8.0+ regional earthquake, if there remains a significantly progressive government in power

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AccordionBruce
@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru
We’ve been talking about high speed rail in the obvious routes like Vancouver to Portland for decades

I honestly think the only possible way any of them will ever be built is after the ever expected 8.0+ regional earthquake, if there remains a significantly progressive government in power

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AJ Sadauskas
@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@AccordionBruce @mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru Honestly, there are aspects of *Australian* train networks that Americans can't believe.

And given how far behind Asia and Europe Australia generally is when it comes to trains, that's saying something.

For example, all of Australia's mainland capital cities are sprawled out metropolitan areas, yet have multiple electrified train lines to the edge of suburbia.

As in, the trains are generally electrified multiple units that run all day. As in, the worst lines run every 40 minutes on weekends.

That's considered *bad* by the rest of the world.

Yet there's a lot of Americans who can't even conceive of the idea that thry would catch a train to work from an outer suburb.

Seriously, most Americans have no idea how far behind the rest of their world their country is.

I had an argument on here a while ago who couldn't believe that Sydney had a metro line to its outer suburbs that was faster than driving.

And compared to Europe? Lithuania has a better train system than most of the US. And that's with a starting point of a run-down Soviet infrastructure under Russian occupation 35 years ago.

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856457201973574768

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856461225800185109

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856464287985458121

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856455170524563586

#train #trains #rail #rails #railway #railways #fuck_cars
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Rimas
@rq@river.group.lt replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@aj, I don't think Lithuania is a good example here. We only have a handful of train lines, and of those only Vilnius-Kaunas is perhaps really frequent (with 22 trips in V→K direction tomorrow). If you look at the map, there are only three railway directions out of Vilnius. One of them (Jašiūnai) gets two trains in one direction tomorrow (Tuesday), another (Naujoji Vilnia) gets 11, and only the last one (Lentvaris) will see over 30 (of which only 15 will stop in the intermediate stop of Vokė).
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Rimas
@rq@river.group.lt replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@aj, map: https://lgmap.lt/lgmap/, timetables and tickets: https://ltglink.lt/metiniai-tvarkarasciai (seems like no English version is available).
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Carina C. Zona
@cczona@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@aj @AccordionBruce @mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru I was amazed a decade ago that I could take a train from Melbourne's CBD, way out into the countryside where the zoo was. American rail barely connects major cities. Rural areas get nothing.
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