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High speed high speed high speed
How about just busses and trains? Just the normal ones, nothing crazy. Just lots and lots of boring busses and trains
That would actually work and improve the situation
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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We need both. High speed is vital for intercity travel, especially cities that people often drive to. Seattle to Portland to San Francisco to Los Angeles for example would cut down on a lot of drives and quite a few flights.
But we also need regular public transit, and the Seattle area is a great example of a part of the country moving in the right direction on that. Though they're focused on connecting suburbs and cometropolitan cities when they also need a subway. But you only have so much money…
will do literally anything other than build a fucking train
but we have chatgippity? That is so much better
AmTruck
Are high speed buses a thing? 225 km/h with presumably rubber tires? Seems like it would be even harder than building tried and true high speed rail.
Also post apocalyptic Australia did it first, they want their desert speeders back and to be witnessed.
Even if the vehicle itself is possible nothing is taking the existing highway curves at that speed. Either they need to have a huge radius or be banked. It's just ridiculous. It's like reading the hyperloop propaganda all over again.
What if they fixed that issue by using metal wheels on a metal road?
Great idea. They could even attach lots of them together for better capacity and efficiency. Wonder why no one's thought of this?
the Onion already did this one:
Obama Replaces Costly High Speed Rail Plan With High Speed Bus Plan
(youtube)
this is so fucking funny... I laugh at my own demise
No stop. Why does our world have to get increasingly absurd and shitty.
amazing, thanks for the tip. i've taken this rare opportunity to cross-post to notnottheonion from nottheonion 😂
Shithole country
I pray for nukes everyday baby. Clean slate. The world would be better. Yankkkeeland is a land of idolwhorshipers. We are still praying to the sun and making chatgipity porn on our "smart phones"
It's pathetic, especially so because the busses will not happen either.
Someone is going to get paid though
fucking corpo sluts...
I am not getting in a death trap "dragster"-bus lol.
What happened to Musk’s magic tunnels, or hyperloop? I thought that was going to solve these problems in about five years, ten years ago.
In case that wasn't obvious or sarcasm, Elmo literally always lies about everything. Those magic tunnels were never going to happen, hyperloop is probably one of world's biggest scams as well, billions and billions wasted on shit that even highschoolers could tell you was dumb.
So reading the article it sounds like this is just a catchy headline. They're not seriously looking into building them:
“Despite significant engineering hurdles, it is conceptually feasible to operate buses safely at high speeds under controlled conditions,” the review reads. “However, real-world implementation requires incremental approaches, substantial investments in infrastructure, technology, and rigorous validation through field tests.”
“It might offer as a complementary option alongside existing solutions like rail, not to replace them,” Mehdi Moeinaddini, a senior transportation planner at Caltrans, told KCRA about the high-speed buses."
Could be intended as a stopgap until the rail is complete. But yeah that first quote reads to me as a "we know this is a dumbfuck idea, but someone is insisting on us checking and isn't taking the hint when we try telling them."
Or it's something a tech bro pitched to try and kill the rail line AGAIN.
Probably that too
oh, sure, I drive 80mph on the highway and I'm a "criminal speeder" but somehow these buses are safe at nearly twice the speed? ya right 
I recommend looking at this map that includes all planned rails in gray.
Look at the one connecting Dalian and Yantai across the Bohai Strait (the one that forms a bay in the Northeast, near the Koreas). That's 120km of underwater tunnel, already in construction, planned to open in 2030
Edit: High res picture
They're still building the train, it will happen eventually. The buses are a short-ish term solution, that can happen much more quickly.
It's much easier to build anything in China, because dictator.
So now that the US has a dictator to it should be built bigly faster than before right? Riiiight?
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