Unhinged to think the bulk of the population can work remote on train rides with 0 demand. Dropping you from one frozen wasteland to another is not desirable.

Have you been to Siberia or Alaska? If you're not flying you're going to have a LONG drive once you get to either side.

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californical 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They didn’t say replacing 100% of flights or drives with trains, but the vast majority of trips people take would be popular enough to sustain regular service for those people.

You don’t have to ban a thing for 100% of cases, there will always be outliers. My wife and I love driving deep into the wilderness. But still the vast majority of our travel is routes with heavy traffic, let’s replace those trips

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Ericson2314 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm talking about white collar workers working remote on a multi-day HSR trip all the way from the Continental US, through BC-CA, AK-US, RU, etc.

Yes, this is a very, very, very large Capital project :)

	▲	xnx an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Yes, this is a very, very, very large Capital project :) Large capital project = extremely high carbon cost Producing cement, moving aggregate, and pouring concrete takes an immense amount of fuel.