Look at the voters DeSantis is courting via his bullshit fascist policies in Florida, and ask yourself whether the people whose votes he wants care at all about international law, jus cogens, multilateralism, or even human rights.

except for the small little detail that it was approved by the majority of voters and still maintains majority support. It’s the special interests that are holding it up ...and the greedy.   Sort of a hard YEAH!

tax everyone, like all other taxes, you know, like the, ahem, gas tax.

Yeah, because nothing would make America look better internationally than a presidential candidate who takes pride in having personally violated the Geneva Conventions.

Learning he’s short and obviously self conscious about it goes a long way to explaining why he’s also a fascist prick.

But what if travelling by train is easier, safer, more economical and more environmentally friendly than flying?

Why would the traffic in the cities affect them if they took a train?

Trump is just a allusion to how our national ethos is about greed, and greed, both personal and political is what is really destroying our ability to have public works like this. We used to be able to build massive infrastructure, highways and dams and parks and now because a divided electorate is playing tribal…

Yes, true but because we are stupid. High speed rail along major corridors would be amazing. Have you ridden trains? It’s fantastic, none of the rigamarole of flying with the ability to walk about and stretch your legs at any time. Europe does it. Asia does it. Works great. And I say this as an airline pilot!

“Pay no attention to my boots, I tortured prisoners like a real man”.

Raisin Bran motherfucker

DeSantis is a sick fuck in so many ways. However, given the dynamics of the GOP primary, I wouldn’t be surprised if this benefits him in the short term.

Not all Americans want to drive. We dont have an option. Flying is also a miserable experience. Owning a car is fucking expensive and most times not necessary if we had an ounce of public planning

Or the Spanish, or Koreans, or Japanese.  Pretty much any advanced country except the UK, US and Canada

Meanwhile SNCF are running double deck 200mph trains to every city in France a dozen times a day. What do they know?

It’s a lot of money, but California brings in $250 billion in taxes every year. We need to push this through and do an honest appraisal of what went wrong (and what went right) when it’s done. Doing new things is hard and many mistakes will be made, but we have to start somewhere and presumably we’ll get better at it…

As far as i am aware, French engineering companies were in fact hired!
But then the americans decided to deviate from the french engineering plans and things got bad.
I might be confusing the californian clusterfuck for another one in the USA, but there is at least one case in which the French railway engineers had a…

If you want a good topic for an article, how about, why is infrastructure so expensive in this country? It’s not just California High-Speed Rail, and it’s not just California.

This happens everywhere. You propose a budget, bids come in, get accepted, and then THEY ALWAYS GO OVER BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE FUCKING GREEDY. This isn’t a California thing as much as you dicks want to make that point. This is an all of us problem. We will NEVER have any good light rail or high speed trains while the…

This is the kind of thing where climate change considerations need to take precedence and it should be, um, railroaded through. Impose those carbon taxes on those ICE cars and aircraft.

I was impressed in Korea when they in just a few years extended a rail line by 30 some odd miles—through valleys and mountains (i.e.…