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

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:07:20 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

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.
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Here, the Stasi have infested the trains as well:
https://www.amtrak.com/tickets-id-safety-security

That's about crossing borders to another country. I think
that's reasonable. Lots of criminals try to avoid prosecution by
crossing borders .... over 100 of Bolsonaro's followers fled to the
US. I have no idea how they got permits, most of them do not work, and
many of them are criminals linked to drugs trafficking, prostitution,
money laundering and contraband.

I mean being searched to travel in your own country.... that
should not happen in a "free" country.

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I do not go to airports, and even to pick up or drop off
someone; I remain in my car in the parking area.

Well, I used to have to travel by plane.
When traveling in Brazil I prefer 1) A train - if available.
There are very few passenger trains left
2) A bus. They are usually comfortable and have air
conditioning.
3) Ugggh a plane

That's if I have transport on the other end. If I don't, I
just drive there. Trouble is, I'm getting too old to drive. The most I
can stay awake is about 12 hours. Then I just curl up and go to sleep.
I've woken up in a stalled car twice in the last 10 years....
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