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

On 1/21/2025 8:20 AM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:01:01 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
 

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

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I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and
passing through the secret state police.

 Don't forget the "9/11"  catastrophe here in the U.S.The bad guys were
cleared ,by security, to be  passengers on the airplanes.

I think that's parallel to armies preparing to fight the previous war, instead of the one coming up.
As I recall, those Saudis carried box cutters, which were not then on the list of forbidden items. And until then, hijackers typically wanted to divert the flight and land elsewhere. Nobody anticipated someone wanting to turn a plane into a Kamikaze suicide bomb.
I don't know that the outcome would have been any different if they'd boarded in any other country. Well, except perhaps Israel, which enthusiastically embraces racial profiling, at least against Arabs. That's more difficult in our society.
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