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Shipwack

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2. I opened this thread hoping to be excited.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:49 PM
Mar 2025

However, I'm just disappointed.

I was hoping to see some nationwide expansion, not just a corner of the US being revamped. I'm sure the reason is that that is where the majority of the revenue and use is, but still... When you look at train routes in Europe and Asia, then look at this...

Anything is better than nothing, I know... We'll be lucky if even this modest work isn't zeroed out because trains are "woke" or some such stupidity. It's my opinion that Musk's "Boring Company" only exists to convince municipalities not to build their own mass transit rail systems.

Remember Obama's plan to link the country by rail? That was before we realized that the Republicans would vote against jobs and infrastructure improvements to their own states just to "own the libs". Some states refused to take the money offered.

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