Rents Are Through The Roof >10% Over PrePandemic Levels; In 0 of 50 States Can a Minimum Wage Worker Afford Housing

[fluid hips]

Someone at CNN lurking this thread

Europe wants a high-speed rail network to replace airplanes

Ambitious plans envisage train links between major cities as a way to meet goals of carbon neutrality, but campaigners say cooperation across borders, not to mention raising the enormous investment needed, will be tricky.

www.cnn.com

 

[iamjusayn]

Complex got bought by another company… lease ends rent going up to 1500 from 1280. **** them

Can’t do that in LA city rent control. Owner’s winning wherever you live. Might need to invest there if it’s that easy.

 

[Present]

While we talking about bullet trains, Republicans been trying to axe Amtrak for years...

Amendment to Defund Amtrak​

SEP. 6, 2017 | H.AMDT. 287 TO H.R. 3354​

This amendment by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) to the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R. 3354) would have eliminated funding for Amtrak’s national rail network, a vital transportation link for millions of people, supports thousands of good paying jobs and provides enormous economic benefits across the nation. The amendment failed.

YEAs: 128
NAYs: 293

Amendment to Defund Amtrak | AFL-CIO

aflcio.org

 

[finessence]

We can’t even behave in traffic, at the airport, in the subway, on subway cars… bullet trains won’t be any better. Americans are completely f*** up in the head.

They’re already complaining about the bright line trains here in South Florida. People are complaining about the speed…

 

[TSCQ]

We can’t even behave in traffic, at the airport, in the subway, on subway cars… bullet trains won’t be any better. Americans are completely f*** up in the head.

the reality of a bullet train in japan



how people behave in modern times in America

 

[gry60]

We can’t even behave in traffic, at the airport, in the subway, on subway cars… bullet trains won’t be any better. Americans are completely f*** up in the head.

They’re already complaining about the bright line trains here in South Florida. People are complaining about the speed…

Mehiel's group supports a bill in Florida's legislature that would allow the state's Department of Transportation to enforce safety standards for rail lines like Brightline. At a hearing in Tallahassee, Brightline's Rusty Roberts said the company has been working with local communities to identify problem areas where it has upgraded fencing and other barriers. But, he said, doing so is expensive.

"That fencing in our case is over $200,000 a mile," he says. "So if you start regulating fencing in a blanket way, it's very costly for the railroads to do that."

That's just the fencing. In comparison, an overhead transmission line costs around $250k/mile.

This is why some public projects can't be undertaken by profit-driven, private entities. Corners have to be cut somewhere, and the general public will be lower than investors or potential riders in the hierarchy of stakeholders.

 

[finessence]

(I’m all for high speed rail BTW)

I just don’t trust us as a people. For now