President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors

admiralteal, 5 months ago

For anyone, like me, who was annoyed at that tiny, low-def map, the full report can be found here: https://railroads.dot.gov/corridor-ID-program

If you're specifically after that report, go to the selections under "News"

brothershamus, 6 months ago

Yesssssss!

ivanafterall, 6 months ago

Key selected projects include: building a new high-speed rail system between California and Nevada, which will serve more than 11 million passengers annually; creating a high-speed rail line through California’s Central Valley to ultimately link Los Angeles and San Francisco, supporting travel with speeds up to 220 mph; delivering significant upgrades to frequently-traveled rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia; and upgrading and expanding capacity at Chicago Union Station in Illinois, one of the nation’s busiest rail hubs.

Sweet.

admiralteal, 5 months ago

CityNerd did a pretty good theoretical on the LA/LV line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Noo855zyA

The unfortunate reality is that LA is a city with such insanely bad urban design that it's unlikely the corridor is going to be of huge benefit to someone making the trip, at least in the near term. Their city transportation options need wholesale revision to give intercity transportation a fighting chance; as it is now, you'll just be in gridlock congestion or hours of awful public transportation to get to the departure station, for most people.

LA, like so many postwar-design-pattern cities, have sabotaged themselves terribly. Which to me, weirdly, is all the more reason to just barge on ahead with projects like this. They cannot afford to NOT start fixing their brutally inefficient, totally car-oriented infrastructure. The existing system doesn't work. Can't work. Only de-emphasizing car trips can work.

DarkGamer, 6 months ago

Another great move by the Biden administration! I wonder if it will be acknowledged by his critics?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

This critic is pretty stoked at the stuff he's been doing lately. I really hope he ganks a drug patent from some Shkreli-looking asshole, though.

Edit: And now we’re back to being shitty and supporting genocide. Goddammit

wagesj45, 6 months ago

Sounds great on paper but there's tons that can go wrong. Don't forget all those billions that got paid or for national Internet infrastructure that the cable companies just pocketed.

I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.

DarkGamer, 6 months ago

I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.

That won't be until well after 2024.

admiralteal, 5 months ago

And the Biden critics are working hard to get Trump re-elected and ensure all these projects get shitcanned before completion anyway.

gravitas_deficiency, 5 months ago

That won’t be until well after 2034

FTFY

BasicTraveler, 6 months ago

Yeah, we should really nationalize that infrastructure.