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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

The country is less than 300 miles long. Is this really necessary?


6 posted on 11/05/2023 4:10:58 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

“The country is less than 300 miles long. Is this really necessary?”

small countries with dense populations like japan are the only situations where high-speed trains make much sense ... in the case of israel, such a train might be a strategic defense measure ...

after all, at the height of the cold war, one of the major original rationales for constructing the U.S. Interstate Highway system was as a means to quickly move strategic military resources ...


12 posted on 11/05/2023 5:43:17 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Fungi

Just in case there are Philistines to slay and you gotta get there quickly.


18 posted on 11/05/2023 8:28:11 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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