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What If The United States Built A Transcontinental High Speed Rail Line? | Geography By Geoff (11:41) (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] kalkulat@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If it's such a good idea, why aren't the private RR companies getting together to ask that question? Questions like: who pays for it? what does 'high speed mean' (150mph average = about 20 hours), why transcontinenal (SF to NY is mostly EMPTY) and who'd benefit the most (not most of US).

I read the other day that some company is making JET fuel entirely of human poo. Sounds like saner option.

[โ€“] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I think there would need to be a lot of public funding, and the amount of airline lobby money against this would make it impossible.

Good idea or not, it all comes down to money.