While our old trains crash; the rest of the World Overruns us with High Speed Rail

[magicguido]

Latest Train Crash:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amtrak-train-derails-montana_n_614fd470e4b01dff4b6e5a36

[NurseJackie]

1. This was great! Asia and Europe certainly have us beat...

... and I doubt the US will ever be able to compete.

[Merlot]

5. US won't be competitive as long as republicans have any power

[RKP5637]

2. As the US continues to fall behind the rest of the world. We had a good run of it

for awhile, but now that seems the distance past. And the poverty and dead cities/towns in the US is stunning! I don't see how the US will come back.

[lambchopp59]

3. Albeit daunting task, consolidation of transit resources must happen

I won't pontificate, it's just too frustrating. I'll just post this:

https://www.overshootday.org/steps-to-movethedate/

[Joinfortmill]

4. Love high speed trains. Rode one in Europe.

[appalachiablue]

10. In France we travelled on the hi speed TGV train

from Paris to Bordeaux in the south, 20 years ago. Fantastic- the US is sadly so far behind other nations.

US friends travel often to Demark and tell how the airports, trains and infrastructure are new, clean, fast and so far ahead of American systems.

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. That's what I thought when I saw coverage of the derailment this morning.

At one point, they described how fast the train was. It's a 48-hour trip from Chicago to Seattle (2050 miles by car, about 25 hours driving time).

Suggesting that speed might have been a factor in the derailment, they said the train averaged 50 mph, but could go as fast as 80. I thought WTF? The rest of the world has trains going over 200 mph and we're still using trains that haven't been impressive since WW2.

[kimbutgar]

7. I watch the Smithsonian channel show mighty trains

Even in third world countries they have better trains than the US. What a burst for our tourism if we upgraded our rail system in the US.

[magicguido]

8. We spent our money on various needless Wars

[msongs]

9. the usa needs tracks dedicated to high speed not shared with freight nt