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If you think Orlando is bad about sprawl, come to Colorado Springs. We have, like, 3 city center areas. I'm a 90 minute walk from downtown. The bus would be 30 minutes if I feel like waiting an hour for it to show up and require at least one change. There's barely half a million people in this city. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 21:09
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https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1193587984282640385?s=19 loving nerds.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:24
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Not noted, population density which plays a big part in why trains work in mountainous Austria and not in sprawling Virginia.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:40
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Thwomp posted:Not noted, population density which plays a big part in why trains work in mountainous Austria and not in sprawling Virginia. I mean I don't give a poo poo about whether the rail is high speed, it doesn't need to go 120mph, it just needs to be regular, on time, and be within reasonable walking distance. You can solve the reasonable walking distance issue with bus service that actually loving works as opposed to being a half hour to hour late every time.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:57
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KirbyKhan posted:300 roses for my custom made AR Receiver. Generous gun enthusiast only, explicit texts will be ignored. Ok, I lol’d at this.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:59
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Every time I've checked on regular-rear end slow rail because I thought it'd be fun it just looked like sitting in an airplane for 3 solid days with 50 stops. And even more expensive I'd definitely take something comfortable and direct even if it isn't all that fast
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Oct 15, 2020 22:01
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Also plan on sitting in sidings while priority freight uses the tracks.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:11
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Fallom posted:Every time I've checked on regular-rear end slow rail because I thought it'd be fun it just looked like sitting in an airplane for 3 solid days with 50 stops. And even more expensive Yeah, that's the thing with rail travel. Across this country, it's worse than air travel both on a price and time basis. Now, the government could offset that by 1) just taking the hit on Amtrak because it's viewed as a public good to have an affordable, reliable cross-country alternative to air travel and 2) by investing in high speed rail owned by the US government. #2 would both improve transit times (via higher speeds) and delays (mostly due to Amtrak leasing/buying time on freight rails where freight takes priority if there's a conflict). Now between desirable metros, intercity rail can make sense without government subsidies (see the northeast corridor and the California coast. Side note: everyone wants to link Chicago to St. Louis but there's fuckall in St. Louis and I've never understood it) but the distance between most of our metro areas makes it really, really hard. Edit: For further reading/watching, Wendover Productions makes great videos on stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSw7fWCrDk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA Thwomp fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:12
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I took a sleeper car with my wife once for about 36 hours and it fuckin' owned bones.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:13
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Are trains non-smoking entirely now? I'll just stick to driving, I never have anywhere to be in a hurry.
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Fallom posted:Every time I've checked on regular-rear end slow rail because I thought it'd be fun it just looked like sitting in an airplane for 3 solid days with 50 stops. And even more expensive Up and down the east coast works like this at least. I do Boston or now RI to DC a good bit. It's several hours but way more comfortable than airline seats and I can bring on booze and drink the whole way. Ask me about passing on a $100 upgrade cost to leave early from Union Station then making the brilliant decision to run up a $140 bar tab instead. That Works fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:20
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Saw a video of someone taking a train from LA to Seattle along the Pacific coast and that would be worth it for the scenery.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:21
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we voted in so-cal to nor-cal high speed rail years ago. has any work been done? i don't think so. but i am pretty sure the billions in bonds were made and issued.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgxUb-TIKiM Pretty powerful video about the importance of rail travel in our nation and world
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ded posted:we voted in so-cal to nor-cal high speed rail years ago. has any work been done? i don't think so. but i am pretty sure the billions in bonds were made and issued. Well, forest fires have been clearing the land. But that doesn't solve seismic issues.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:24
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Are trains non-smoking entirely now? i took an overnight train from Paris-Nice in 2005 and it was the only place you werent allowed to smoke besides mcdonalds
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Oct 15, 2020 22:25
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Woofer posted:I will never fly along the east coast again as long as Amtrak is an option. I would never fly anywhere if I could take a train even if it takes longer.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:27
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Yeah Amtrak is so much better than air travel that adding even an entire day to your travel is worth it. I also just really, really hate the airport and would rather drive than fly. Isn’t there an east-west train that goes from somewhere in the northeast out to the west (Colorado is a stop I think).
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Oct 15, 2020 22:30
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Woofer posted:Yeah Amtrak is so much better than air travel that adding even an entire day to your travel is worth it. Yeah, there's a Chicago-San Francisco train. Took it thirty years ago and had a blast, although I was an eight year old boy on a train so of course I had a blast.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:33
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Thwomp posted:Not noted, population density which plays a big part in why trains work in mountainous Austria and not in sprawling Virginia. Density is very specifically mentioned. quote:Population: 8.5m vs 8.8m If you're referring to more local density, that's a chicken and egg problem, dense suburbs do not just happen without infrastructure to support them. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:34
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Woofer posted:Yeah Amtrak is so much better than air travel that adding even an entire day to your travel is worth it. There's three main routes across the US, north, central, south. I took NY to Chicago to Martinez to get home when I got off a ship, it was good if you can spend three days with nothing much to do. I think I read Shogun and some other stuff. Wanted to take the Canadian one but I couldn't make it work.
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EBB posted:Also plan on sitting in sidings while priority freight uses the tracks. Yeah, people in the NE Corridor love Amtrak because Amtrak has passenger-specific rail segments. Anywhere else in the network, you spend a not-insignificant amount of time sitting (or laying, if you pay enough) still. The other block to nationwide high speed rail is land ownership. A nationwide network would look like we let Jeffy from Family Circus draw the routes to avoid all of the Big Agro-owned farm tracts and natural gas fields. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:39
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Also, I'm guessing most municipalities, counties, and states have about a half-century of pent up ill-will regarding bad faith negotiations with the rail companies regarding access and right-of-way that are on Hatfield and McCoy type level. They are a pain in the rear end to deal with. e: Think The Rainmaker, but swap rail companies with Great Benefit. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:49
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ded posted:we voted in so-cal to nor-cal high speed rail years ago. has any work been done? i don't think so. but i am pretty sure the billions in bonds were made and issued. It got canned, it went way over budget and they are only finishing one segment, Bakersfield to Merced. Yay. That project was doomed since it couldn't get into LA proper either via The Cajon Pass near victorville by swinging west around the San Gabriel mountains, or through them at the south of the Valley in towards Santa Clarita. Same thing about it not going all the way to Oakland/SF either. They should have done a segment between LA and San Diego first as a test case IMO, and maybe used some of the money to fully complete BART as it was intended, to be a ring around the entire Bay Area. Ah well. They'll get it right one generation. That being said apparently the Las Vegas to Mojave High speed rail project got funded, at least as far as LA to Victorville, the "cheap" part.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:55
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Big K of Justice posted:It got canned, it went way over budget and they are only finishing one segment, Bakersfield to Merced. Yay. That project was doomed since it couldn't get into LA proper either via The Cajon Pass near victorville by swinging west around the San Gabriel mountains, or through them at the south of the Valley in towards Santa Clarita. Same thing about it not going all the way to Oakland/SF either. Isn’t this an SNL skit
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Oct 15, 2020 23:03
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That Works posted:Up and down the east coast works like this at least. I do Boston or now RI to DC a good bit. It's several hours but way more comfortable than airline seats and I can bring on booze and drink the whole way. I love that Amtrak lets you bring booze onboard and there's always at least one person who doesn't know and is either amazed at this new found knowledge or weirded out. I bought a six pack of Narragansett tall boys when I was going back to RI to visit family from DC a few years ago and proceeded to slowly drink them one at a time while I read my book the entire trip. Pretty sure some of the people in business class didn't care for it but 
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Handsome Ralph posted:I love that Amtrak lets you bring booze onboard and there's always at least one person who doesn't know and is either amazed at this new found knowledge or weirded out. Nothing is stopping you from bringing alcohol onto a plane either, it just has to be lass than 3.5oz per container. Which basically just leaves the single serving liquor bottles. Also some people seem to be surprised that you can bring your own food into an airport/onto an airplane.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:33
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Nothing is stopping you from bringing alcohol onto a plane either, it just has to be lass than 3.5oz per container. Which basically just leaves the single serving liquor bottles. It’s actually illegal to consume alcohol other than that served by the airline. You can bring it through but not consume it on the plane. Technically. It’ll probably only matter if you get so drunk they try and cut you off and then you keep drinking and they divert or have cops escort you off the plane.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:37
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Train talk has reminded me of two things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NvK1KpRTEs and... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZdQyBpo3s In other news. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316839129833902080 "I'm going to prompt a counter-programming Town Hall so that I can get better ratings...and then gloat about said ratings...and I'm going to do it on network TV...but it's on a network I think is fake...so I'm going to go ahead and do it BUT I'm going to remind people I think that network is FAKE." 
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Oct 15, 2020 23:39
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Me getting fed up and exiting The other passengers on the plane: :o
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Oct 15, 2020 23:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:Me getting fed up and exiting All the DC-9s and 727s are gone Mr Cooper.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:41
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The pinkerton is getting charged with 2nd degree murder. I knew he was going to catch charges, I still don't think he gets convicted.
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https://twitter.com/jaredbkeller/status/1316845764459532291
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Oct 16, 2020 00:05
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was he on his way to a wedding?
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Oct 16, 2020 00:14
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Hit in the head by a 20mm round, "died several hours later at the hospital." Yeah, no poo poo he did.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:15
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Proud Christian Mom posted:was he on his way to a wedding? 
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Oct 16, 2020 00:16
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hit in the head by a 20mm round, "died several hours later at the hospital." several hours later is when the disembodied legs stopped twitching.
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fknlo posted:The pinkerton is getting charged with 2nd degree murder. I knew he was going to catch charges, I still don't think he gets convicted. It's loving lol that pinkerton sold him up the river like that though.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yeah, there's a Chicago-San Francisco train. Took it thirty years ago and had a blast, although I was an eight year old boy on a train so of course I had a blast.
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