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220 mile (350 km) high speed rail connecting Casablanca and Tangiers is in final phase of preparation with test train runs and is set to open for revenue service in 2017.
Morocco is using TGV trains licensed from France travelling at 200 mph (320 km/h).
Why can't America?
>inb4 Acela -- there are hardly any section it can actually travel at high speed because U.S. is too fucked to build a dedicated high speed track
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Why can't Canada
so they can flee the country at high speeds now
Canada doesn't have the population density necessary for high speed rail to be economically viable.
The U.S. has more than high enough population density along the Northeastern Corridor (Boston-New York-Philly-DC), California (SF-LA), and Chicago-Milwaukee.
Self-driving cars and hyperloop less than a decade away.
>muh high speed trains.
>a century behind tech wise
>progress
>hyperloop less than a decade away
Is this what tech-illiterates really think?
China is the master of the world.
Canada is in america you pleb
Americans don't like public transportation. Almost everyone here has a car, there is no need for a giant network of trains.
It's not too complex, American's like their cars
What if only whites were allowed on high speed trains?
>Morocco is using TGV trains licensed from France travelling at 200 mph (320 km/h).
Can shitskins do something by their own ?
Fusion, still only 30 years away!
ask yourself
Fusion is always 30 years away sadly.
>there's a filthy fucking Moroccan right now pretending to be Canadian
We need to fix this country.
>hyperloop
>Falling for the 1000 mile vacuum tube meme
Not going to happen ever
Congrats, first-ally!
neither does fucking Morocco but apparently you think they're worthy of emulation
>Je maintiendrai
implying Canadians aren't the ones that need to be fixed.
>Moroccan fleeing their vermin cesspit trying to pretend they're the cure and not the disease
Fucking disgusting.
No high speed rail is economically viable which is why the us doesn't build them
How long before muslims bomb it?
White countries no longer have the grid to complete any large projects. The Apollo program put people on the moon within 8 years. Today, White countries are barely able to maintain their infrastructure.
The original man is a "shitskin". Mutant albino skins (so-called whites) wouldn't be here. You do know that mutants are inherently weaker than the original stock. Are you jealous of your father????
that's nice
That could work actually
No it's not.
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Unless you're a shitskin
how much percent of the population can even afford to use it ?
1%?
the only thing trains are really good for in my opinion is cargo transport.
going somewhere with train in germany ( not even high speed train) is rather expensive so i prefer not to do it a lot.
Dear America-kun
You can buy our fastest train.
Looking pretty good desu
Can..can it transform?
This is why airlines are ok for the most part
We have planes
>ducktrain
kek
looks cool
We have Acela on the east coast. It won't go 300 mph or anything but it gets us around.
>fastest train
>still slower than a plane
Do plebs actually think trains are better?
Here in Sicily we have railroads from ww2, fucking north african are now more rich than us..fuck...
Why not use a sub orbital shuttle?
>fastest plane
>still not faster then a sub orbital shuttle
You would have modern rail by now if your entire region didn't collaborate with Mafia.
>Americans don't like public transportation.
>What is planes
>Not having one of these
>or these
>bend over and spread you asscheeks pls
How is Sapsan?
>American tier train
>not living in the train
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It's not about speed tho. Trains are more efficient in every way if you compare them to an airplane. It's basically 75% of your profits you have to reinvest to keep the plane airborne. For 1/4 the amount of passengers and twice the speed of a high-speed train.
Also when travelling from Casablanca to Tangiers by plane, you probably lose all time benefits in the boarding process.
Trains are for jews.
Americans always find excuses for why they can't do what others have been doing for 50 years.
American tier is BIG tier.
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And railways need governement gibs to even make profits.
>implying that the State never collaborated with the Mafia
Sure, next you'll say that Mafia exsisted from ancient time, despite we don't have a fucking single reference until the "MUH RISORGIMENTO, MUH GARIBALDI", oh wow what a pure coincidence.
US build transcontinental railroad 147 years ago.
Yeah, and they walked to the moon barely 50 years ago, but now they've turned into losers with a no can do spirit. All you hear from them is excuses for why they can't do what others did.
It's not just them. It's all White countries. Poland has only the illusion of growth because you are still catching up in many areas. In a few years it will feel idle, too. Our civilization is in hard stagnation
Meanwhile if we want to build a high speed rail from two of Australian major cities it would take 40 years.
>Says the pole
Our drill, is the drill that will pierce the heavens!
The picture... it's so dense.
That's a TGV, it was retarded since the beginning, it's only purpose was to give work to hordes of SNCF mechanicians for decades. It's a pure syndicate project, 100% French madness, whith astronomic costs... I'm amazed some foreign countries bought it.
It's much faster for shorter distances.
Why can't Israel
>hurr we need to get to the airport two hours before the plane takes off
>spend at least half an hour exiting the airport on arrival
>get to the train station 10 minutes before it leaves
>when arrived you just walk right out
Anyone taking bets?
This, hyperloop is faster and costs a tenth of the price of high-speed rail.
> Trains are more efficient in every way if you compare them to an airplane.
Kekest of keks.
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>It's basically 75% of your profits you have to reinvest to keep the plane airborne.
Modern airliners have 18-19 lift to drag ratio. This means that they spend only 5-6% of fuel energy to keep plane airborne.
>fuel litres
>TGV
If you take a TGV in France it's nuclear power propelling you at high speed.
Which reminds me
>be American
>hurr we can't have high speed trains it's too hard
>hurr we can't have nuclear power it's too hard
if its close enough to go with the train i use my car. if its farther away i use a plane.
From the article:
>Assuming the continuing dominance of fossil fuel-based electricity, the study indicates that suitable French-style rolling-stock would require twice as much fuel per seat as a Volkswagen Passat, and more than a short-haul aircraft.
You do realize high speed rail can be powered by nuclear power plants, no?
>planes
>falling for the heavier than air flying device meme
Not going to happen ever
>You do realize cars and aircrafts can be powered by nuclear power plants, no?
but they're not, whereas TGVs have been powered by nuclear plants for decades
Do Moroccans poo in loo?
They're not though.
>inb4 some Tesla electric car shit
>inb4 some experimental plane from the Soviet era
poopoos in the couscous
>Japan has literally offered to build a maglev cross country for the US
>US declines
Can somebody explain the reasoning behind this
How do we stop this stagnation?
Airline and car lobby.
>maglev
>Japan is currently planning to build a Maglev line (Max speed 500 kmph) between Tokyo and Shin Osaka(~500 kms) at an estimated cost of 9 Trillion Yen
>$150 fucking MILLIONS per kilometer of road
Wew, lad.
Fascist Totalitarianism, I think
Friendly reminder that up until the 1960's, the U.S had the most efficient light rail / streetcar system in the world. Then General motors bought all the tram lines up under dummy companies and deliberately let them rot away until they were gone from the big cities entirely.
They were caught but got off with a slap on the wrist.
Just give them some time.
The Cold War did wonder for space exploration. Now America doesn't seem to give a shit, they don't even send their spacemen themselves.
In the meantime China is planning to build their own space station and are doing some good progress on their fusion reactor.
man, i really do love lobbyism. its so great.
Perpetual energy train system when?
Increased deficit spending.
>muh keynesian multiplier
>muh war-time innovation
This
Even in Japan, travel by airplane is far cheaper/faster than the shinkansen. The bullet trains only benefit is that you can hop on at a train/subway station just like a regular car, no need to check bags, go through security, check-in, etc like with an airport.
Fucking Caltrain, thought I could take the train to San Jose in peace and get some work done. train car was full of noisy, smelly niggers and the speed was barely above that of a bus. Next time I'll just rent a car.
Portland has excellent light rail
Streetcars are literally communism tier
Ya. But how early do you have to arrive at the airport to get through security and baggage check?
Not to mention when you get there, the pain staking process of getting your baggage once you finally make it off
man thats going to cost a lot when trump bombs it
Don't drop that champagne
Not to mention the time it takes to get from the airport to your actual destination.
The drawback is that the hyperloop doesn't exist yet
No, it hasn't.
New York, Washington, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago are the only American cities with serious public transport and all those cities suck.
>The bullet trains only benefit is that you can hop on at a train/subway station just like a regular car, no need to check bags, go through security, check-in, etc like with an airport.
There is big place for improvement here, in the security system. With end goal of making getting on plane same fast and simple. Too bad it will require profiling of passengers that could be called as "discrimination". Liberals don't allow us to have good things.
Fun fact, Chicago used to have streetcars. Lot of crazy shit beneath the city. First you have the old mail train tunnels (abandoned), then the streetcar tunnels below them (abandoned), then the water drainage tunnels. Would make for a good horror film.