We rode it last year from Miami to Orlando. It was fine, but hardly high speed. Driving through Vegas yesterday on our way back home from Park City, we saw no signs of construction of the planned HSR from there to Victorville, let alone Rancho Cucamunga. They clearly don’t have the money.
And yes, this:
High-speed rail is catnip to politicians. Except it doesn’t work in America. Not only do we drive, but we take airplanes. As I said in March, much better to build more lanes on an expressway.
I’ve been saying for years that widening I-5 between the Grapevine and i-680 (as Pat Brown always intended) would be a vastly better investment for ground transportation between LA and SF than rail. The two new lanes could be charging lanes for fast electric FSD cars.
Tire dealers in Nevada and Arizona are clicking their champagne glasses. I’ll bet that there will also be a lot of Amazon deliveries.
California doesn't do these things for "efficiency", and the cost increase isn't an unfortunate side effect…it's the whole point. CA leaders deliberately make driving financially painful with the goal of forcing you onto public transport. They brag about it in legislation. https://t.co/PUjhkJwt2N
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I spent a lot of my youth in the public library, to the degree that I was once suspended from high school because I was caught there by the assistant principal instead of being in class.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been on an impressive winning streak. From New York City to Los Angeles, it’s the biggest story in politics since you-know-who descended from a golden escalator in 2015. But every now and then, the DSA hits a roadblock.
And when they do, have you noticed that it’s almost NEVER because of economic pushback?
As a lover of free markets and capitalism, I wish it wasn’t so. I wish defending free markets was a winning issue for the GOP — and a galvanizing message for the electorate.
I wish the American people were economically literate.