• can@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Worst part is that was already done* to build the highways (and on traditionally black neighbourhoods to boot).

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, but there’s already a freeway here.

      For everyone downvoting me, I have nothing against high speed rail. I would love to have that as an option, but my city is literally never going to build one.

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        4 months ago

        Brightline has a solution for their planned LA to Vegas route. 96% of their planned high speed rail is in the I-15 highway median. (Source: https://www.brightlinewest.com/overview/project)

        Yes, I know that won’t work everywhere and there isn’t always a highway median. I’m just pointing this out as one situation in which someone does have a (planned) solution to the problem of a highway already being there.

        Also, we expand highways on a regular basis in the United States, and that often means demolishing things next to them. Perhaps there are alternative uses for that space?

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        4 months ago

        Have you heard about this insane invention called

        tunnel?

        Sure, it’s more expensive but you can put miles of rail underground without much issue, besides cost. Safety will be slightly lower, but just from super safe to very safe.