the chad creative revolutionary destruction
the virgin reformist stagnation
High Speed Rail
Angel Morris
Ian Murphy
Dramatized but correct. I’d say nearly 60% or trips I go on in my major metropolitan area are plagued by unforeseen traffic events. Yesterday I left my apartment to go on a trip that was supposed to take 20mins, and instead it took an hour and a half because there was a wreck. This happens constantly. I’d say 5-10% of the time there is a dangerous obstruction in the middle of a freeway. Like a piece of debris, literally mattresses and wooden chairs that have fallen off of trucks. A month ago I literally saw an overloaded 18 wheeler drop a massive spool of some kind of wire about 3 cars ahead of me. It looked large enough to crush the cabin of a car, given that it was mostly bumper to bumper it was extremely fortunate nobody was next to the 18 wheeler when their cargo fell.
By contrast, the most effective transit I’ve ever experienced in my entire life was Japan. It’s obscene, I want to cry. Their trains are un-fucking-believable. Always on time, at most a 10min walk from wherever you are, and the cities themselves tend to have plenty of things to do or see anywhere because of how walkable they are. The worst part of it seems to be if you’re a girl, you’re likely going to get felt up on a crowded train at some point. But functionally their trains seem safer and an untold degree more effective than roadways in America. I want to die. Fucking kill me.
Joshua Mitchell
Oh, ignore me saying dramatized. It’s absolutely correct, I skimmed the post and misread murdered as though someone could kill you with a knife while going to and from your car.
Jonathan Brown
Just saying they "all go over budget" isn't a good enough reason, it went from costing an already enormous $32 Billion to $77 Billion.
In the meantime we aren't paying our teachers, we aren't fixing roads, but our government sure as hell is trying to find creative ways to tax us: proposals range from a mileage tax–quite literally charging us just for driving–to charging people a tax for text messages. All of this is meant to supposedly "fix the roads" but every tax placed on us is justified with claims that we'll "use it to fix the roads", and it always turns out to be nonsense.
Don't get me wrong, I love trains. I would be satisfied, even, with a leisurely train ride through the countryside. But I think this whole project stinks of incompetence.
Parker Reed
these pics make me rage every time
David Hill
Reminder that dumping shit in the middle of major roads and highways is revolutionary praxis.
Parker Gomez
Good. All roads should be converted to gravel.
Gabriel Cox
Mandatory reading
Parker Jenkins
On coke: becoming a socialist because you just really like trains