Do it, we shouldn’t even be sending this much shit by long haul trucking anyway. Let’s revive CONRAIL under USPS, deliver more goods by freight rail, and just use small and medium trucks for last mile deliveries. Oh, and demolish urban interstates. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
While we’re aiming high I want large-scale, modern and fast interstate passenger rail
I propose taking two lanes from each interstate everywhere in the US and converting them into Mid-Speed Rail (90-120 mph) for longer distances and HSR where it makes sense.
My only issues would be areas with 2 lanes or less in each direction (>4 total), heavy thoroughfares/interchanges (ie where would you put the stations/would station transfers be easy to make/would location make sense), and last mile (often once I travel outside a city where I am going may be 20+ miles away from the highway exit).
Economic blackmail against the largest city in the country will certainly have the desired effect.
i don’t even know what the desired effect is. you would think that they want the courts to be apolitical and not bow to outside pressure, and that’s what sparked the protest, but now they are politicizing the court decision and trying to apply outside pressure.
there are lots of things this protest could effect, but the court’s decision isn’t one of them.