We better start seeing those RAM prices drop else just gotta start boycotting them into submission.
I’ve lost count of how many times Florida has put high speed rail on a ballot and got votes overwhelmingly to find a way to make it happen. And it still doesn’t have it. If Florida had done what the population wanted back in the 90s, it would already be paid off and it would be an entirely different, more modernized and connected state. But “it was too costly”.
I know a ban is a bit different, but it’s an example of how just because the will of the people is expressed, it’s no guarantee.
That always made me mad, I voted for it every time, it would pass, and then nothing would come of it.
It was going to happen, using private funds to build and operate it for 10 years, before giving it over to the state, but Rick Scott killed it as soon as he took office as Governor, without ever mentioning it during his campaign.
Later, he backed a new conventional rail system, in which he has an ownership stake.
Man Florida is a long state and mostly flat. Not sure if the wetlands screw things up but I imagine it is a nearly ideal state for rail.
Too bad it is full of Florida men.
Ideal is a circle; long is just more expensive. Flat is really good though.
I’m in NZ; we have long and hilly/mountainous, rail is not good here. I wish it were, I love trains.
