mondoman712

There's ~$34 million in there to study new routes. The $3 billion of this going to CAHSR will:

• Fund six electric trains for testing and use
• Fund design and construction of trainset facilities
• Fund design and construction of the Fresno station
• Fund final design and right-of-way acquisition for the Merced and the Bakersfield extensions
• Fund construction in the Central Valley

See https://hsr.ca.gov/2023/12/05/news-release-high-speed-rail-authority-to-receive-record-3-1-billion-from-biden-administration/

We'll put, but I disagree with you on this point

The US wasn’t built by public transit though, it was built by car and truck.

Many US towns and cities started as railroad towns, and they grew due to rail connections. They had local streetcars around which new suburbs were built. Downtowns were originally walkable and mixed use. Only later were they destroyed to make way for urban freeways and parking, and the post war housing boom's racist policies brought about single family zoning and car dependant suburbs.

The US was built on mass transit. Pre WWII the US was covered in electrified interurban lines, it wasn't until the 50s when the car started to become really popular that these were dismantled and your cities demolished to make way for more highways. Many people could easily benefit from new transit options if they were installed, while for others changes to land use (such as ending single family zoning) would also be need to be made.

Just fyi, you can link to a community like this: /c/fuck_[email protected]

The US freight rail industry isn't some of the best in the world, it's actually really quite terrible. It fails to maintain it's infrastructure, can't run to a schedule, frequently loses cargo, and causes ecological disasters. It is good at creating short term profits for shareholders, not being an effective transportation network. If you want more info, here's a video that explains it better.

Why wait?

I have a Turing pi V2, currently with only one CM4 module in it, running some *arrs, paperless, smb and some monitoring.

"Bikes don't work for some people, therefore why bother? Let's all just drive."

You can make more than 100 ebike batteries with the same amount of lithium as one electric car battery.

Caojiawan metro station

That station was just built ahead of other development (which is a sensible thing to do), this is what it looks like now:

Manual transmission is half arsed. If you really want manual, ride a bike.