China has 22,000 miles of high-speed rail and we’re still celebrating every 200 miles we can get.      High-speed rail is 8 times more energy efficient than airplanes and 4 times more efficient than cars. The challenges are great but we need to keep pushing for it. scientificamerican.com/artic…

Dec 9, 2023 · 12:48 PM UTC

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we met several times i have donated to all your campaings and a huge fan let me know how I can help. Marrianne2024.com. Im routing for you
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We realy hold join the modern world some time if not now when ?
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Absolutely!! Very important issue.
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The US needs to be forward thinking. We will eventually fall short to other countries. Then it will be too late.
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If you’re serious about the environment, your biggest issue would be overturning the civil rights act. Otherwise you’re just grandstanding. You’ll have trains no one is willing to take.
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The issue is not the trains themselves, but you have to move major infrastructure, buyout landowners, sometimes go thru towns. Enormous money is consumed in just this. Brightline in Florida was cheap, majority built where there was nothing, swamp.
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Yes!
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I doubt it’ll come to fruition any time soon. They haven’t even made the existing stations easily accessible to disabled people. The ADA set the deadline to be in 2010. That gave them 20 years and they did NOTHING. Dished out some settlements and gave themselves 10 more years 😑
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