Just because that was spent making this, doesn’t mean it is worth that. This is a five grand frankencar weirdo project.

Huh? Don’t think I have ever heard that conspiracy before. 

Good to see a Ferrari performing at factory spec even after all these years.

Everyone keeps forgetting that the interstate is already flat enough to add gravel and some rails. 

Yep.  New Bos-NYC route should run in the middle of I84/I91.  But RI will be butt hurt.  So yep, politics in the US ruins everything.

And yet the ones that spread this bullshit had no problems forgiving billions given to business owners via the PPP clusterfuck.  If that’s not forgiving debt to a privileged class, I don’t know what is.

Definitely room for both pizzas and brownies. No need to choose.

It could, but because of the difference in trains/rails, there are large parts of interstate they couldn’t operate. I mean ideally you would run rail along side interstate, that is what they are doing with some sections of the Texas highspeed rail, but it really depends on how much empty row area you have to build on.…

A big problem here is the way we pay for all of this, it’d have to be a federal thing if we want to make the tracks capable.

“California high speed rail is also a national shame where politics, pork and NIMBY have made it overpriced dysfunctional and serving a few small inland cities.”

Acela isn’t primarily meant for one-off tourist runs. Commuting via Acela, saving half an hour each run means you save 50 hours a year. And you don’t have to drive, which means you aren’t being stressed out by idiot traffic and can just relax or, if you must, work on the way in and out. You also don’t have to figure…

Brownies? I think one could rig up some kind of pizza oven above that thing and have a pizza train. Call it the “Pepperoni Express”

From the Washington Post:

See, living in Boston and visiting Manhattan by Acela is actually really nice. You get stare out the window, daydream, sleep.

If 43 million Americans can’t pay for houses, which is a significant fraction of our economy, and can’t afford either new cars, which are explictly being built for the “premium” market, or used cars, because they are only available at near-new prices, then that’s a you problem as much as a them problem.

Debt forgiveness also applies to vocational schools and trade schools. So the working or ‘exploited class’ is covered.

It’s complicated. But it comes down to this: college is so expensive these days that in many cases you’d be better off not going. Taxing the rich sounds crappy to conservatives, but the vast majority of people really cannot grasp just how much more money 1 billion is vs say 10 million. It’s truly a mindfuck. One…

Why not buy Pendolino trains?

Lol, you realize a lot of student loans are for working class people, right?

You can make the brownies in one of these.