Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zen Cycle Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet. Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:11:33 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <%KBgP.409299$EYNf.56321@fx11.iad> <517vojpsdc12v47esttdrtjasfbaea5bjp@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:11:34 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36a20007a64b0306efef4bf014a4e580"; logging-data="152121"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fbw73a+YTswCXUC/Tnu9RcimV/ub3Ymg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JWUk+8n4voDruzTtie0f9jbpKlU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 1/21/2025 11:51 AM, Shadow wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:20:27 +0700, John B. > wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:01:01 -0300, Shadow wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:48:33 +0100, Rolf Mantel >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> San Francisco or Oakland to LA is only an hour on commercial >>>>> aircraft. The same to Las Vegas and only a half hour more to Arizona >>>>> and only a half hour more than that to Denver. Trains simply do not >>>>> work with the distances between major cities in the US. Too bad, I >>>>> do like railroads. >>>> >>>> On the contrary, exactly those are the distances that work on high-speed >>>> trains. "One hour on commercial aricraft" means a total travelling time >>>> of approx. three hours "city-center to city-center"; a "2:40 non-stop >>>> travel time" by train as planned on completion of phase 1 would kill the >>>> air market completely. >>> >>> I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and >>> passing through the secret state police. >> >> Don't forget the "9/11" catastrophe here in the U.S.The bad guys were >> cleared ,by security, to be passengers on the airplanes. > > And some "survived" the crash, and were arrested in Europe a > while later. I don't recall any of the 9/11 hijackers surviving. Conspirators, yes...actual hijackers, no. > PS I don't think "Homeland Security" even existed before > Bush's coup. Were people searched when boarding planes before that? I > never was. Only after I landed, by customs. Even that was unusual. I think carry on bags were x-rayed, Don't remember much besides that. > []'s >> >>> And when you reach your >>> destination, it's usually at least 30 mins to the center of town. Two >>> wasted hours. >>> I presume train passengers would not be subject to "homeland >>> insecurity" groping. Unless one of the CEO's from the "air market" >>> paid someone to plant a bomb. The usual "take me to Cuba" excuse would >>> not work. >>> []'s -- Add xx to reply