Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet.

On 1/21/2025 7:01 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:48:33 +0100, Rolf Mantel
<news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
 

San Francisco or Oakland to LA is only an hour on commercial
aircraft. The same to Las Vegas and only a half hour more to Arizona
and only a half hour more than that to Denver. Trains simply do not
work with the distances between major cities in the US. Too bad, I
do like railroads.

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On the contrary, exactly those are the distances that work on high-speed
trains.  "One hour on commercial aricraft" means a total travelling time
of approx. three hours "city-center to city-center"; a "2:40 non-stop
travel time" by train as planned on completion of phase 1 would kill the
air market completely.

  I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and
passing through the secret state police. And when you reach your
destination, it's usually at least 30 mins to the center of town. Two
wasted hours.
I presume train passengers would not be subject to "homeland
insecurity" groping. Unless one of the CEO's from the "air market"
paid someone to plant a bomb. The usual "take me to Cuba" excuse would
not work.
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That's not right.
Here, the Stasi have infested the trains as well:
https://www.amtrak.com/tickets-id-safety-security
I do not go to airports, and even to pick up or drop off someone; I remain in my car in the parking area.
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