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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same story as usual, take a lot of poor minorities' land to expand for shitty highways.  Good thing it has been pared back....for now.

Funny how we can't get public transportation because rich assholes in Bethesda and Chevy Chase though are angry that the purple line might cause a little bit of inconvenience.  Build over where those poor minorities live though?  No problem!

God America sucks.  All anyone can ever think about is stupid car centric transportation We should be trying to develop like an actual 1st world country like Japan, Germany, China, Singapore, or South Korea. [/quote]

The only place you name there that is geographically comparable in any way is China.  The others are tiny.  I agree that central planning and funding make it easier to create high speed rail in China, along with the fact that the proportion of the population who already had cars was much lower, so some transportation alternative was needed.  But, in the United States, the car represents freedom.  If you don't like it, there are other countries with excellent rail where you can move.[/quote]

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