- cross-posted to:
- cars@aussie.zone
- cross-posted to:
- cars@aussie.zone
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1198065
We can and should be allowed to drive faster on our freeways and motorways; but don’t think governments will let it happen overnight.
Sometimes, I think the only country that hates good public transit as much as America is Australia. One legend to another, I tip my hat to you.
Honestly, this wouldn’t really be needed if you guys even had highER speed rail connections between your cities (think 200 kph, rather than 320), which would be a lot cheaper to build than real HSR. Besides that, taking a train sucks a lot less than driving all those huge distances, or at least, in my opinion it sucks a lot less.
I feel like petroleum companies have played some role in assuring that countries like America and Australia don’t develop rail capabilities.
We’ve been trying to build a widespread high speed rail network for half a bloody century, the problem is after the first few costing reports and plans are drawn up and agreed upon, the government gets kicked out and the plans scrapped for budget savings, then a few years pass and a new plan is started from scratch.
The problem is they genuinely don’t want to. There’s no real political will to achieve the goal and some pollies will give lip service to the idea and never truly bother to get it started.
And yet over the decades, we’ve spent hundreds of millions on “feasibility studies” that amount to nothing.
Funilly enough the people who received that money all happened to be buddies with the politicians. On both sides even.