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

On 1/21/2025 11:51 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:20:27 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

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

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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.

  And some "survived" the crash, and were arrested in Europe a
while later.

I don't recall any of the 9/11 hijackers surviving. Conspirators, yes...actual hijackers, no.

PS I don't think "Homeland Security" even existed before
Bush's coup. Were people searched  when boarding planes before that? I
never was. Only after I landed, by customs. Even that was unusual.

I think carry on bags were x-rayed, Don't remember much besides that.

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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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