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jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM to traingang@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Texas High Speed Rail is dead

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Texas High Speed Rail is dead

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  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Announced as a purely private venture…but cost estimates dramatically ballooned. orly

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      But I was told privatization was much more efficient and the government overspends on everything

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        projection

    • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      yarly

    • MidnightPocket [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      middle-men infested it no doubt

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    They’ve been talking about this shit since I was in high school nearly two decades ago. I always assumed it was never gonna happen

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      :mystery-emote: Texas :solidarity: California

      Talking about, but never doing, High Speed Rails

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    We saved you each 17 cents. Now say ‘thank you.’

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      Now say ‘thank you.’

      Very rude Texans. jaby-vance

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I’m surprised it was ever alive

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’d like to imagine the only trains in Texas are old timey cowboy steam engines

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      the metroplex has the DART, but it needs to be updated badly.

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      the good news is due to lack of infrastructure and state investment they kinda are

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      Bring back banditos!

  • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Was Texas high speed rail ever alive?

  • ColonelKataffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    sixty million dollars is about a sixteen-thousandth of the trillion dollar annual pentagon budget.

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    In the state that probably needs this the utmost.

    Amazing.

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    I can’t believe we have to rely on Brightline building private high speed rail in places that are profitable (such as Texas). Deeply embarrassing and worse for the public in the long-term

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    From the thumbnail, I thought that said Sean “Puffy” Combs as secretary of transportation. My brain went “I thought he was in jail? I guess Trump pardoned him and added him to the cabinet.”

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