See, that gets a lot of play but it isn't the driving reason. Here is his letter to Congress, the one military mention is the need to evacuate cities in the event of atomic bomb attack. That would seem indicative of wanting roads into cities.
Europe is not as expansive as the US. It's due to their zoning that you see clusters of town/city living, rather than what we think of as the country.
Again, I"m not making that trip. I was just pointing out how easy it was to book it if I so desired (I don't) and that I could make the trip straight through. You said Amtrak was inefficient. Maybe you meant to mean that from a cost perspective. And, hell, in the Midwest I'd probably agree with you. But not in the NE. Trains are an important part of travel and help keep highways from being a mess.
Webster does not include racism as a synonym for bigotry
It's inefficient everywhere but the Northeast. Not just the Midwest.
And here is the definition bigot (it is better than the previous post)
Those are both evolved meanings by those searching for different ways to describe racism because the word racism has become mostly meaningless. I readily admit that people use the words interchangeably. Lazy people ahave already dumbed down racism with over and inappropriate use. You are doing the same with bigotry.
It's inefficient because they make too many stops. The NE ACELA gets heavy-use because there are limited stops. It would be more cost-effective (but politically difficult) to run passenger trains that only stop in major cities.
If I can’t challenge one paradigm every day, it hasn’t been a productive day.
I agree, I guess I was just pointing out the whole "it's an antiquated system" comment. It seemed to imply that we should be phasing out all rail transport, which would be bad.
That's why, in Europe, they have direct - express - routes and 'milk routes'.
If you're going to discuss it you should, at a minimum, know how to spell it. It's "Amtrak."
Anything other than the NE corridor is usually a 20 hour trip (eg, NY to Miami, or Baltimore to Chicago). They're all milk routes.
That raises more questions than it answers. Why do they skip Boston because Savannah is full? The Jones Act says only US ships can carry between US ports in an attempt to preserve the US Merchant Marine. Maybe it needs eliminated, but I assume he is saying there are not enough US ships. That would be a problem in its own right.
Approval ratings right now have absolutely no value in predicting where things will stand in 2024.
So, as far as I can tell, the real story is this: the cargo line in question picks up products from several Chinese ports, then heads to the East Coast and drops off at several American ports, starting in Savannah. Normally, it would go Savannah-Charleston-Boston-NY before heading to Europe for a couple of final drops, and then sending the ship back to China to start all over. They are skipping Boston in order to get closer to back on schedule.
60 percent of DC Metro’s train cars are out of service. A problem with wheel assemblies was causing derailments.
30 minute waits between trains for the last month!! But I'll take it if it means I'm not going flying off the rails over the Baltimore/Washington Parkway!
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The bill does not raise gas taxes, or make tolling easier. It also only contains a small pilot mileage-based user fee program.
That sucks. I was going to DC about once a month prior to COVID and only traveled their once since (I didn’t even know they were building a new terminal at Reagan) and didn’t use the Metro that time. I usually do, but maybe I’ll have to Uber instead.
I agree she is not a plausible candidate but dumping her will give voice to the squadites about the system being sexist and racist. They will recruit on this idea.
Seems like the euros (not all of them) use a ring road and spur system where the interstate equivalent terminates at an outer ring road (or continues to bypass the city) and you take that lesser ring road to the spur of a lesser road in line with your destination…then maybe another ring road …etc. I saw how Russia used this system to lock down and extort payments from foreigners traveling from the center cities to their airports in the late 1990s. A checkpoint at every ring and spur on the way to the airport. Given the time differences, most of this was transacted in the 03:00 time area. I adopted a child from Russia in 1999. Autobahn in Germany and M system in Uk seemed to work similarly.I have never visited Europe, how do they run their highway system without going through cities? It appears Ike liked that idea, not going into cities:
The President referred to a previous conversation with General Bragdon. He went on to say that the matter of running Interstate routes through the congested parts of the cities was entirely against his original concept and wishes; that he never anticipated that the program would turn out this way. He pointed out that when the Clay Committee Report was rendered, he had studied it carefully, and that he was certainly not aware of any concept of using the program to build up an extensive intra-city route network as part of the program he sponsored. He added that those who had not advised him that such was being done, and those who had steered the program in such a direction, had not followed his wishes.
I agree. The chimera of racism is overplayed and does not drive at the root causes. My older children graduated from the American School of London. Very competitive enviroment. My daughter had an assignment to startup a social cause for lesser fortunate people. She chose ”Free Tibet” or something similar. She got it moving forward but it was high jacked by another causist and she was very bitter. I advised her that her goals were noble but her reactions were not noble…remember the original good intent. Same with all this racist back forth..not sure MLK would be proud that his message has morphed into something sideways, up and down ..but not a straightforward love all God‘s children and don‘t pass judgements based on the melanin content. I like Papa Aubrey‘s message on the court house steps.
You get your wish. Many old Republicans like me are going to forgo the election. Then you will learn that 10% is the difference. You will take to the streets and claim fraud. Be very careful of what you may find this time when you take to the streets.
