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The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.
So hopefully they improve the transit situation in the cities & surrounding areas as well.
both dallas and houston have somewhat okay rail networks though
The Train got cancelled the other week by Texas govt.
Oh, I knew the feds had cancelled grant money to it, I didn't know the state killed it. I know they're all in the pocket of big oil, but it's just wild to me how trains are apparently woke.
They are woke because they have potential to improve lives regardless of class, race, or gender. Obviously they should have to "earn" those improvements by buying a car instead.
Well that sucks
At least in Houston, the transit isn't horrible if you stay in the inner loop. They gave a few rail lines and the buses run frequently there, so it's probably fine in theory. But if you have to leave the inner core...
Well, you've got to start somewhere. CAHSR has been the impetus for a lot of sprawled out central valley cities to get their shit together. Fresno is probably the prime example of this. We're trying to drag Merced into getting its shit together, though kicking and screaming it may be.
Displacing minorities is a feature. Otherwise Those People might build up generational wealth, and eventually start considering themselves white people’s equals. POSIWID.
(Seriously tho those wide urban highways split up a city as much as a river does. It looks like the Hudson in NYC with those massive bridges).
Ever expanding the number of lanes to meet the demands of 10 years prior is the Texan way.
Don’t forget ignoring literal decades of data that show adding lanes doesn’t fix traffic
In a couple decades it’ll be parking lots and highways with no city left.
Kind of is now tbh in Dallas and Houston lol
Look at all those Ps!
Goddamn that's beautiful. I can practically taste the freedom 🥲
I'm too lazy to do that, but maps of Texan cities where their highways were edited to water bodies would really prove this point.
Land is more important than people. That’s why Wyoming gets the same number of senators as California.
Steal stolen land, you mean.
See, what happened is Texas heard something about bullets and got a bit ahead of itself.
If it was a new interstate or an extra lane on the Katy freeway, nobody would be saying shit. My favorite example is how there's in interstate project in the northeast that's pretty much as overbudget as CAHSR and basically nobody is talking shit about it.
what, railway? no no, this is a superhighway for coupled-car vehicles!
I don’t know that that’s an “average Texan,” I think that’s more “average massively wealthy landholding Texan.”
Certainly is average Texan voter. They vote for this.
(Although they’ve mostly been indoctrinated from a young age so the blame is more on the corpocratic state elite than the population).