Heavy Rail, Commuter Rail, & Intercity Transportation

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Originally Posted by chowhou

It is, but progress has been made and needs to continue to be made to fix the mistakes of the past. My grandmother took the train to go downtown. My dad drove his Buick. I take the train to go downtown. There is political leadership in this respect.

Saying things like, "There is no political leadership in North America as large corporations dictate policies here" is just pure conspiracy brain rot.

Further, if we want to change the built environment, we quite literally have to build the environment we want to see built. It's pathetic to say, "we cannot build rail because have not built rail." And frankly anyone saying the built environment is tilted towards motor vehicles so we can't make HSR work has clearly never been to Taiwan...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/1BJ3vD4zoTfoTdow9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kCrqycfjdpFR7KSC6

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xwdYDXN9dUX8nXe47

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uwLvrrEHsmcRVF688

All I can say is good luck to anyone expecting a transit connection here.

Once again, you clearly do not understand how politics work in North America.

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.”

O&G contributed 100 million dollars to the GOP election campaign to eradicate environmental protection. It's no coincidence that the GOP has done their best to try and kill passenger rail projects during his tenure.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/09/trump-wants-to-slash-federal-funding-for-public-transit

O&G is still a prominent player in the US, and we by the mere proximity to the US and heavy reliant on the fossil fuel industry are following suit. It's no coincidence that conversative detest passenger rail. You can call it weak leadership, but this is fully fueled by big time donors that are protecting their interests.