A 100 car double-stack intermodal train can take 200 trucks off the road. Rail is easy to electrify with overhead wire while Elon’s garbage trucks need batteries.
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I never understood the hate either. The 996 Turbo was a monster back in the day.
Get rid of the chicken tax and watch truck prices come down with the big three actually have to fairly compete.
An Amtrak Orlando or Tampa to Atlanta route would be less than 750 miles which would require the FDOT and Georgia’s DOT to pay for the operating costs of the service. They could apply for grants to subsidize part of the construction cost but that would only be up to 50% of the cost, and they would have to raise the…
So many politicians in the US have a misconception about the true cost to maintain a highway and the cost of driving. Every developed country has highways, but only the US has made it their main focus for short-to-medium distance Intercity travel at the expense of our urban areas, environment, economic security, and…
Rick Scott in Florida did the same crap. He then spent over 2 billion dollars on I-4 Ultimate which is running over budget and behind schedule for some dumb toll lanes through Orlando. We had federal money and private partners wanting to be involved with the previous project, and he threw it all away. Unemployment…
Northeast Corridor probably needs 50-100 billion dollars worth of improvements to bring it up to a state of good repair and make it globally competitive. At the minimum double tracking is usually around 5-10 million a mile and high-speed rail is more like 50-100 million a mile. No matter what the federal government…
Another reason is airlines have cut flights to secondary markets and lower traffic travel routes. Short-haul air travel in many cases is extremely expensive. Trips like Charlotte to Atlanta would be perfect for high-speed rail but only have a train a day right now.
I-75 in North Florida might give I-95 a run for its money. That road is like Mad Max. So many accidents and deaths every week. Yet the FDOT instead of investing in state-funded Amtrak service wants to build a toll road nearby that will suffer from similar issues and cost billions of dollars while stealing resources…
Routes under 750 miles have to have their operating costs subsidized by the state DOT’s. They can only receive federal grant money for construction costs and not operating costs. Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio all killed their rail projects when Obama sent them money to build them. Florida would rather waste money on…
The things I would do for Northeast Corridor style service in Florida. The state of Florida actually has more people than the state of New York yet all the Amtrak service we have is two long-distance trains and the Autotrain. It falls on the states to fund the operating costs for sub-750 mile routes outside the NEC…
If you get an F30 with the sports suspension and summer tires it handles nicely. I have driven the ATS and I did not really find it any better. The LCI F30's also fixed a lot of the earlier steering complaints.
Then buy an M car then. Most of the BMW I saw back then in the early 2000s were automatic equipped lower engined models in the US. The lease spec 328i, 528i has been BMW’s bread and butter for years now in the US.
GLA, CLA, A3, X1, and Q3 are all popular in the college town I live in. Overseas in Germany, those types of vehicles are everywhere. I have driven the outgoing RWD 1 series hatchback and it was pretty nice to drive but man the hatch and backseat were cramped having that RWD drivetrain.
Most new vehicles will be semi-autonomous in a few years anyways and electric or plug-in hybrids. Tesla’s sales success in the luxury car segment and the rise of ride-hailing services kind of has put the writing on the wall for traditional gas-powered luxury cars. Even if BMW wanted to build a modern E30 3 series (NA…
So we need to spend public money on basically a wealthfare handout to all the car and tech companies because Americans are afraid to live in apartments and get on trains and buses. Quality use of resources.
So what are going to do about parking all these vehicles and the additional VMT created when all these vehicles deadhead back to storage lots/parking lots? Autonomous shared vehicles attempt to put bandaid on the US’s horrible suburban experiment. Electric cars are also are incredibly inefficient at high speeds and…
Exactly. A strong middle class creates a stable country.
Cool you can read the Declaration of Independence. I can’t wait for AOC and Bernie Sanders to push for modifying the Constitution to include housing for all amendment. It will be good to see this country finally progress into the 21st Century.