• GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    The US has over 160,000 miles of rail. That $6B is just $37,500 per mile and doesn’t take into account money needed to update/upgrade stations and crossings.

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      5 months ago

      So, the word you want to use is insufficient. That is not the same as neglecting.

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        5 months ago

        100 years of neglect, and finally a very welcome but woefully inadequate $6B. We need many times that just to catch up on maintenence for existing slow rail, much less upgrade to handle higher soeeds

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        5 months ago

        No, neglecting sounds extremely reasonable - the system has been consistently under invested into.