Trains can take freight cross country just fine... we have the tracks to do that.
Stupid Girl, Bernie and all the other Marxists are not going to make our lives better cramming us on trains.
Add to that, the "pandemic" has shown how your own personal car provides protection from other people's germs. Not to mention crazy people take public transportation... since we are eliminating police, who were the method of keeping a civil society, I think most of us would rather pass on a train being our forced mode of transportation.
Look at the wonderful CA train to nowhere... We all knew the train was a stupid use of tax money no matter how you looked at it, but the greenies seem to think taking us back to the stone age or 1800 's when trains were the way to tame the west was the best way to control America and seem woke.
We don't need passenger trains... The routes people would now want to travel on a train, are developed.
California's "Train to nowhere" can't get land agreements to go forward, they only have Bakersfield to Merced. Have you ever been to Bakersfield or Merced? The original estimates of the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed line was $33 billion back in 2008. Today the cost stands at $100 billion, and there appears to be no end in sight.
Car 2 hr 34 min
The distance between
Bakersfield and
Merced is approximately 156 miles, or 251 kilometers. The average train journey between these two cities takes 3 hours and 1 minute
Delays in securing land for California’s high-speed rail project will push completion of a 65-mile section of the line in Kings County until at least April 2025 — nearly two years after the date the state included in a business plan adopted last week, a newspaper reported Monday.
www.nbclosangeles.com
Trains had their place "During the 1850s and 1860s, when steamboats and stagecoaches dominated long-distance travel across the West, their schedules varied according to the season. Not only did cold weather and ice halt river travel for months at a time, but ice and drifting snow in high mountain passes greatly slowed the pace of overland stagecoaches and their vital cargoes of mail, or stopped them literally in their tracks. In the new railroad era, steam locomotives and their passenger and freight trains would roll with impunity across frozen waterways and through the icy mountain passes of the West to reach their destinations regardless of the weather, and generally they would do so according to the printed schedule."