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Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels (www.reviewjournal.com)

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

America desperately tries any transport solution except trains challenge world speedrun attempt any%.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just on vacation in a country with a truly excellent rail system, and the moment I came back and subjected myself to the mass transit in my home city, I got kinda sad :(

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we've hosted a lot of exchange students from Europe and Japan and the car dependency to do anything is consistently the biggest culture shock. Even the Russian kid was like "Dude, wtf", though in all fairness, he was from St. Petersburg.

[–] duckington@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing that hurts is it really would not be that hard to build… but they just don’t. Do it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The primary issue is that American government, at all levels, is pathologically incapable of doing anything whose ROI interval is longer than about a year.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Except interstates, then it's "what's an ROI?"

[–] duckington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Painfully true… after all, line must go up