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110mph max speed predicted on the Boston-NYC route? Hell, fungwah goes faster than that.

Mark Richards better watch out.

Fuck Fung Wah.. MEGA BUS ALL THE WAY

Shouldn't we invent the tank before we go dumping a bunch of money on trains?

110? Motherfucker, trains already go 150. Dusty trick bitch.

Can I put O'Brien's flyers on it?

Choo-choo trains, yeah that's going to fix things. Where is this $53 billion coming from?

From the fines caused by my O'Brien's flyers.

250 mph is what the chinese get.

I think this will be good for creating jobs.

It will be, eliminating wasted time for millions of commuters is in the long run money in everyone's pocket, probably on a bigger scale than we can even calculate.

I think more important is who is this 53 billion going to?

infrastructure and jobs are the only way to fix "things", the money goes in the way of grants to participating cities, towns, etc., and comes from budget cuts and china, of course. i think it's an awesome way to offset a lot of other transportation costs for one thing. you can spend federal money on infrastructure, welfare, military or foreign aid - i for one am glad it's going to infrastructure and not anything else.

but why is it only 110mph?? doesn't japan have a 320kph train?

Yeah I could've sworn the acela's top speed is higher than that.

yay more spending!

I'm hoping that 110 is just a conservative estimate. That is definitely not fast enough. Most of the proposed systems on the map are 110, only florida (168) and california (220) differ.

the reason is the probably the lengths of the track and safe braking. something that weights 100 tons takes time to get to 110mph and takes even longer to stop. If you have stations every 50 miles...

Some of it will be going to me.

True. I've ridden the acela a few times. Through certain parts of CT, I think because of the proximity to residential areas but I could be mistaken, they're not allowed to go that fast.

Fucking shady backdoor dealings going on right chea

You tell anyone and you're fucking dead.

@burnsy correct. there is a lot of laws and zoning rules with speeds that have to be followed. sucks when you pay $400 to get from NY to DC is an hour.

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