Is it a 2-fer when a tesla blows up in a parking garage taking out an airport? Asking for the people of Jacksonville.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine how great the US would be if instead of letting one industry (air) monopolize travel, we'd invested in rail infrastructure.

I miss when I was based in the UK for work. I zoomed all over the place via trains. It was like a 3.5 hour trip to go from Paris to Frankfurt and around 2 hours from London to Paris.

We're somewhat lucky on the East Coast in that Amtrak can get you up in the NE corridor relatively quickly, but going to the SE? Those are long, long trips like around 17-20 hours. And going West? Forget that unless you get a sleeper room, which is now sometimes running more expensive than a flight due to the popularity from all the videos the travel influencers have pushed out over the last few years.

Ever ridden the high speed rail from Madrid to Barcelona? The high speed TGV train in France? The bullet train in Japan?

They planned it, paid for it, implemented and are using it. Japan had high speed rail back in the early 70s.

We paid for it again and again. We got NOTHING except committees, "studies", and lawyers getting rich. California High Speed Rail has been 3 decades in the making and zippy to show for.

BTW, Amtrak has lost money every year since it began.

DP Amtrak is controlled by Congress. This forces Amtrak to keep money losing routes open in rural states. In addition these long distance routes are very expensive to operate and lose money- Sunset Limited, Southwest Chief, and Empire Builder. Those need to be closed.

The northeast corridor makes a lot of money for Amtrak but Congress does not allow Amtrak to improve the system. If Amtrak was allowed to run as a private company we would have high speed trains(most likely maglev)from Boston to DC. DC to New York would be one hour, Boston to New York 40 minutes, Philadelphia to New York 25 minutes. High speed trains also make sense on the West coast.

The big benefit would be relieving the overcrowded air traffic in the northeast. The northeast air traffic corridor accounts for 60-80% of the delays nation wide for air travel. That two hour delay in Dallas was most likely caused by delays out of a NE airport.

I don’t think bravery comes in to it, at this point it’s “uninformed”

None of this was happening before DOGE hackers got involved.

Not just Newark now

https://www.denver7.com/news/investigations/outage-leaves-up-to-20-pilots-headed-to-denver-airport-unable-to-contact-air-traffic-control-on-monday

These things didn't happen when the DEI people were in charge. Yes, the systems are old and need to be updated, but this is intentional sabotage to pave the way to privatize and let Elon take over the system for a few hundred billion per year.

So the question, in light of events in Denver and Newark, is what did the DOGE hackers do to the FAA systems?

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3loymw57q6x27

Duffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems."

Secretary Duffy, who exactly was president when COVID broke out and no one was flying?

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers.

In 2025, Trump came in and firing hundreds of them ATC's and support staff.

So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

but this is what we get when there is a reality TV personality instead of a serious administrator at the helm:

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3loyjitnqje2t

Sean Duffy: "We're all been reporting and seeing what's happening at Newark airport. And I think it's clear that the blame belongs with the last administration."

Particularly since these issues were not happening under Biden/Secretary Pete - like they are now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine how great the US would be if instead of letting one industry (air) monopolize travel, we'd invested in rail infrastructure.

I miss when I was based in the UK for work. I zoomed all over the place via trains. It was like a 3.5 hour trip to go from Paris to Frankfurt and around 2 hours from London to Paris.

We're somewhat lucky on the East Coast in that Amtrak can get you up in the NE corridor relatively quickly, but going to the SE? Those are long, long trips like around 17-20 hours. And going West? Forget that unless you get a sleeper room, which is now sometimes running more expensive than a flight due to the popularity from all the videos the travel influencers have pushed out over the last few years.

Ever ridden the high speed rail from Madrid to Barcelona? The high speed TGV train in France? The bullet train in Japan?

They planned it, paid for it, implemented and are using it. Japan had high speed rail back in the early 70s.

We paid for it again and again. We got NOTHING except committees, "studies", and lawyers getting rich. California High Speed Rail has been 3 decades in the making and zippy to show for.

BTW, Amtrak has lost money every year since it began.

If you factor in the opportunity costs and environmental and time savings, it is a net positive to society and to GDP. If the country REALLY invested in rail, it would turn a profit.

Well, ya. When the OPEC shocks hit in 1973 and again in 1978, Europe and Asia invested in rail to counter cars and airplanes.

The US and the lobbyists doubled down on gas and oil. The US HAD the rail infrastructure and right of ways through the turn of the 20th century, but in the post war era, ripped up all those tracks for buses, trucks and airplanes.

Sad.

Anonymous wrote:Imagine how great the US would be if instead of letting one industry (air) monopolize travel, we'd invested in rail infrastructure.

I miss when I was based in the UK for work. I zoomed all over the place via trains. It was like a 3.5 hour trip to go from Paris to Frankfurt and around 2 hours from London to Paris.

We're somewhat lucky on the East Coast in that Amtrak can get you up in the NE corridor relatively quickly, but going to the SE? Those are long, long trips like around 17-20 hours. And going West? Forget that unless you get a sleeper room, which is now sometimes running more expensive than a flight due to the popularity from all the videos the travel influencers have pushed out over the last few years.

Ever ridden the high speed rail from Madrid to Barcelona? The high speed TGV train in France? The bullet train in Japan?

They planned it, paid for it, implemented and are using it. Japan had high speed rail back in the early 70s.

We paid for it again and again. We got NOTHING except committees, "studies", and lawyers getting rich. California High Speed Rail has been 3 decades in the making and zippy to show for.

BTW, Amtrak has lost money every year since it began.

Imagine how great the US would be if instead of letting one industry (air) monopolize travel, we'd invested in rail infrastructure.

I miss when I was based in the UK for work. I zoomed all over the place via trains. It was like a 3.5 hour trip to go from Paris to Frankfurt and around 2 hours from London to Paris.

We're somewhat lucky on the East Coast in that Amtrak can get you up in the NE corridor relatively quickly, but going to the SE? Those are long, long trips like around 17-20 hours. And going West? Forget that unless you get a sleeper room, which is now sometimes running more expensive than a flight due to the popularity from all the videos the travel influencers have pushed out over the last few years.

late stage imperial decline ladies and gentlemen.