Diplomjodler@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoCalifornia Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hoursgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1249arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1246arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hoursgizmodo.comDiplomjodler@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square77fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·29 days agoThey should explore eminent domain and build real transit.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·29 days agoBut what if there aren’t enough minority neighbourhoods to bulldoze?
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-229 days agoThe farmland between LA and SF isn’t minority neighborhoods. But my comment was more an off the cuff dismissal of this ass-backward bus idea than an actual policy opinion. Here’s a real policy opinion: Stop making excuses and run the fuckin trains.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-228 days agoThere you have your problem: That farmland belongs to rich white people.
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-228 days agoAye, that’s a bit of a pickle. But I find pickles delicious.
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·28 days agoForgive my pickle decadence
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoWe already did that then tore it all out and let the railroads keep the property and money they schemed, scammed and straight up stole.
minus-squareFinalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 days agoLand isn’t an issue for high speed rail in CA (anymore), so… high speed busses with dedicated lanes is extra silly.
They should explore eminent domain and build real transit.
But what if there aren’t enough minority neighbourhoods to bulldoze?
The farmland between LA and SF isn’t minority neighborhoods. But my comment was more an off the cuff dismissal of this ass-backward bus idea than an actual policy opinion. Here’s a real policy opinion: Stop making excuses and run the fuckin trains.
There you have your problem: That farmland belongs to rich white people.
Aye, that’s a bit of a pickle.
But I find pickles delicious.
Just like the rich!
Forgive my pickle decadence
We already did that then tore it all out and let the railroads keep the property and money they schemed, scammed and straight up stole.
Land isn’t an issue for high speed rail in CA (anymore), so… high speed busses with dedicated lanes is extra silly.