• Fredselfish @lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What need is to push for high speed rail. But before we do we need politicians and policies that will put enough funds to fix our crumbling infrastructure.

    It is getting bad out here and electric cars and one more lane will never fix it. We need to abandon the cars and embrace trains and buses. But our current infrastructure and even if we built high speed rail the current politicians would let it crumble too and make it useless.

    Time to electric people who feel the way we do.

    • Showroom7561
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      1 year ago

      What need is to push for high speed rail.

      While nice, the majority of car use is for very short trips, so a high-speed train wouldn’t do anything to solve inner city traffic and congestion issues.

      In addition to high-speed trails, which are great for city to city connections, the real push needs to be in micromobility, cycling/e-scooter/e-bike infrastructure, and other forms of transportation.

      If places can offer alternatives to cars for the 90% of what people are using cars for, everything will change for the better.