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No, no, please! ANYTHING but effective mass transit!
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carcinisation of mass transit – right-wingers and tech bros keep re-inventing the train
Except they always do it in the dumbest ways because they don't want to have to rub elbows with plebeians. They want their own private service, every time.
Trains used to have private cars, that's totally available to those shit bastards. Train don't care
what if we put everyone in an artillery shell and simply fired them along a ballistic arc toward their destination?
Soon:
Related: The Cannon Travel was legit one of my favorite parts of the video game Secret of Mana.
The Miracle Transport Machine in Legend of the Mystical Ninja, too!
At least this is a real train, not "pods" or just some teslas in a tunnel.
some teslas in a tunnel with no clearance and no ventilation
On fire.
Except this is just...a train? What are you saying they're reinventing here?
Also, it's absolutely just a play on the final words of the post rather than an actual appeal for more trains.
That's just an Americanised Version of the Siemens Velaro Novo Platform
https://www.mobility.siemens.com/us/en/portfolio/rolling-stock/high-speed-and-intercity-trains/american-pioneer-220.html