$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law –…
So…what if the railroad companies take the money and then do absolutely nothing, like what happened every single time this has been tried? What is there to hold them accountable this time?
Broadband is getting better! My in-laws who live in the boonies a few miles outside of a tiny town of 400 are jumping from ~2-4mbit/s download speed to fiber to the home, and I’ve seen broadband expansion in my extremely rural area by multiple telecom companies! It’s obviously slow going but it is happening
That’s surprising…only way we are getting it here is from our power company which is a coop. They’re basically running it to all the homes they supply power to. Only another 2-3 years for us.
In fairness, last time this was tried we had Husky Musky employing a fraud with the explicit intent of killing the high-speed rail. Toss on a host of republican opposition and undermining in 2013± and you have the reason why it failed. It has nothing to do with the rail companies. It has everything you do with political dysfunction and not wanting to “let liberals win”.
Generally, also pompous-ass disease. As the other user mentioned, Musk has pretty systematically worked against the 99% for his entire adult life. The idea that a normal everyday person could afford a ticket from LA to San Francisco that would get them there in roughly the same amount of time as his private jet would probably have infuriated him beyond compare. Just look at how he reacted to a college student forwarding publicly available information about the movements of that very same jet.
The general theory is that musk dislikes any public transit that decreases car dependency. My personal feelings are more along the lines of “rich dumbass doesn’t like ideas that help the poors”, but obviously that may very well be cynicism on my part.
In the one hand, most of these allocations are to fund planning studies, so that’s exactly what will happen
In the other hand this is not like the telecom situation where we hand money to private companies promising to provide service. It’s generally infrastructure improvements and I believe project ownership is Amtrak or local DOT
So…what if the railroad companies take the money and then do absolutely nothing, like what happened every single time this has been tried? What is there to hold them accountable this time?
Add telcoms to that list as well… almost a trillion was given to them to get broadband in all homes in the USA…poof
Broadband is getting better! My in-laws who live in the boonies a few miles outside of a tiny town of 400 are jumping from ~2-4mbit/s download speed to fiber to the home, and I’ve seen broadband expansion in my extremely rural area by multiple telecom companies! It’s obviously slow going but it is happening
That’s surprising…only way we are getting it here is from our power company which is a coop. They’re basically running it to all the homes they supply power to. Only another 2-3 years for us.
Good to hear. We had a quick expansion of fiber a couple decades ago and it seemed like it just stopped there. You never hear about more fiber rollout
In fairness, last time this was tried we had Husky Musky employing a fraud with the explicit intent of killing the high-speed rail. Toss on a host of republican opposition and undermining in 2013± and you have the reason why it failed. It has nothing to do with the rail companies. It has everything you do with political dysfunction and not wanting to “let liberals win”.
what would be the point in killing the high speed rail project? to defend tesla sales?
Generally, also pompous-ass disease. As the other user mentioned, Musk has pretty systematically worked against the 99% for his entire adult life. The idea that a normal everyday person could afford a ticket from LA to San Francisco that would get them there in roughly the same amount of time as his private jet would probably have infuriated him beyond compare. Just look at how he reacted to a college student forwarding publicly available information about the movements of that very same jet.
I don’t like musk at all but this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard and probably isn’t true
Sounds like you’ve never heard musk speak
The general theory is that musk dislikes any public transit that decreases car dependency. My personal feelings are more along the lines of “rich dumbass doesn’t like ideas that help the poors”, but obviously that may very well be cynicism on my part.
In the one hand, most of these allocations are to fund planning studies, so that’s exactly what will happen
In the other hand this is not like the telecom situation where we hand money to private companies promising to provide service. It’s generally infrastructure improvements and I believe project ownership is Amtrak or local DOT