This headline accomplishes the peculiar feat of being both the typical journalistic pun headline that has likely been popular for generations, and being near clickbait for people (me) who thought a bullet train in California derailed.
There is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.
> There is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.
The Acela is barely high-speed for around 10% of the route length. Route which it has to share with other trains of varying speeds. There's no real high speed rail in the US, even though there are many opportunities for such routes.
I voted for the bullet train in college, because I thought it would have been great to take it home on breaks, rather than driving across the whole state. Now, I still support it, so perhaps my grandchildren can use it to visit me when they go to college.
You’re absolutely right, because California secondary schools don’t teach life skills, they’re not on the standardized tests. I’m a meteorologist so I know a large amount of geography.
If that was a joke to imply I misspoke, I’m not. You’re just using maps that don’t include the great state of Jefferson for “legal” reasons. But the cultural geography of California pretty much ends north of Chico.
I’m saying that those giant mountains that everyone builds their expensive houses on in Los Angeles, make it geographically impossible and financially irresponsible to even attempt to build a train to go through it.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 36.8 ms ] threadThere is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.
The Acela is barely high-speed for around 10% of the route length. Route which it has to share with other trains of varying speeds. There's no real high speed rail in the US, even though there are many opportunities for such routes.
If that was a joke to imply I misspoke, I’m not. You’re just using maps that don’t include the great state of Jefferson for “legal” reasons. But the cultural geography of California pretty much ends north of Chico.