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Joe Biden Boasts Plan to Take Millions of Vehicles off Highways by Putting People on Trains
Breitbart ^ | 10/21/2021 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 10/21/2021 8:14:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden revisited his love of trains during a trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, promising to get millions of vehicles off the roads.

“We will take literally millions of automobiles off the road,” Biden boasted, arguing that more high-speed trains like the ones constructed in China would make trains more attractive.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; biden; election2022; election2024; people; trains; vehicles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My last train experience was not a good one.

The brainless conductorette took my ticket, walked to the other end of the car, then came back and accused me of not having a ticket. Fortunately, it was a round trip ticket and I had the other half in my pocket.

On top of that, it felt like the train was running on the ties instead of the rails.


41 posted on 10/21/2021 8:41:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
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To: pricilla
You won’t be able to ride the train without the vax

There is a special train just for the unvaxxed.

It ends with a Zyklon-B shower or a toasty oven.

42 posted on 10/21/2021 8:42:07 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right of way issues will kill that. The railroad tunnel in Baltimore has the Northeast bottle necked.


43 posted on 10/21/2021 8:42:10 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Dream on, Joe. People like to go their own ways.”

Joe should go visit Newsome’s high speed train between LA and San Francisco.


44 posted on 10/21/2021 8:42:56 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“We will take literally millions of automobiles off the road.”

I certainly believe him there.


45 posted on 10/21/2021 8:42:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: farming pharmer

I noticed you mastered the art of reading between the democrats lines alertness does pay.

NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT
It’s always your last act.


46 posted on 10/21/2021 8:44:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: 9YearLurker

biden wouldn’t have blurted that out unless his handlers are actually considering it.


47 posted on 10/21/2021 8:48:12 AM PDT by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: cuban leaf

I like that.

My place will be renamed Galt’s forest.


48 posted on 10/21/2021 8:53:49 AM PDT by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: Red Badger

Ping.


49 posted on 10/21/2021 8:54:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


50 posted on 10/21/2021 8:56:29 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Trains and electric cars are 100 year old tech.

So, did Joe take a train to Scranton? I saw a video of his arrival in Scranton. Many Chevy suburbans escorting the presidential limo. There was a hand full of people on the street who were booing biden. ZERO supporters.

And he got 81 million “votes”.


51 posted on 10/21/2021 8:56:34 AM PDT by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: Army Air Corps

They will put people on trains.................. Just like the Nazis did.....................


52 posted on 10/21/2021 8:59:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

*Biden boasted, arguing that more high-speed trains... would make trains more attractive.*

And the rape in PA, along with commuters being pushed onto the tracks will detract from it.

It feels like a loaded cattle car headed toward the slaughter house.

Only train I feel safe on are Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Train, and the Cumbres and Toltec.


53 posted on 10/21/2021 8:59:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? Back in jail again! 4th time this year!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Joe Biden”, “Putting People on Trains” is not a good concept.


54 posted on 10/21/2021 9:00:17 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: FreeReign

LOL! I was just thinking of posting “IT’S A COOKBOOK!”


55 posted on 10/21/2021 9:01:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? Back in jail again! 4th time this year!)
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To: Soul of the South

Explore Railhenge.


56 posted on 10/21/2021 9:08:08 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FJB


57 posted on 10/21/2021 9:09:40 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

High-speed trains, no matter what bells & whistles, are not attractive if they don’t go from where I am to where I’m going.

Every year I make at least one 2000-mile round-trip drive to central NY, involving 2 adults, 2 kids, and 2 dogs.

With car:
- Throw everyone & everything in the car, dogs included.
- Begin trip whenever I want.
- Gas up, costing $75.
- Drive 16 hours.
- Gas up once en route, costing $75.
- Arrive, with everyone & everything I need, AND have a vehicle to use while there.
- Repeat, other direction.

With train:
- Put dogs in kennel, costing hundred$.
- Pack very carefully, as luggage limits are extremely strict.
- Drive to bus stop >1 mile away. $25-50 for long term parking or Uber.
- Transfer luggage.
- Wait for bus.
- Take bus to transfer station.
- Transfer luggage.
- Wait for subway.
- Take subway to transfer station.
- Transfer luggage.
- Wait for [currently nonexistent] high-speed train.
- Take high-speed train on [currently nonexistent] 1000+ mile route to destination transfer station, including delays for multiple stops.
- Transfer luggage.
- Rent car, costing hundred$.
- Drive to destination.
- Total time in transit & delays: 16 hours.
- Repeat, other direction.

Trains are great if you live near them and your life revolves around them.
Trains are great for small regions where population distribution is roughly linear (either by natural geography, like Japan or California coast, or because populations developed around long-existing train networks, like Europe).
Trains suck for enormous geographic regions (USA is roughly 2000 by 3000 miles) with diffuse population (east of Mississippi River is populous but evenly spread with few natural hubs/lines, west is sparse).

Practical alternative to trains is (many here will hate me for this) self-driving EVs.
Low power costs, burned fuels are mitigated by scrubbers far more efficient than on-car emissions control, most of a long trip will be done without human intervention (akin to sitting idly on a train), all without the dealing-with-crowds and waiting-for-service problems of trains. Might even be able to rent out your EV when not using it (it will drive itself for paying customers when you have scheduled downtime).

Considering how California is doing with their high-speed train project, they’re not happening to any meaningful degree in the USA. Ever.


58 posted on 10/21/2021 9:13:59 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I see Musk lining up right now for giverment money to push his tube train thing.

Once upon a time, before the late 40s, there were Interurbans all across the country. GM bought them up and scrapped them to promote bus and auto travel.

You could ride between small towns, even here in rural Oklahoma, for less than a quarter all day long reliably.

Yeah, the demented, pervert SOB makes me vomit.


59 posted on 10/21/2021 9:16:35 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: ShadowAce; ChicagoConservative27
Hey--He commuted every single day for 36 years as VP, and when his wife and daughter were killed he went home to see his family.

Yes, and if he was late arriving at the station he would make the train delay its departure, thus affecting all the other passengers.

60 posted on 10/21/2021 9:19:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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