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They already blocked Caltrain funding meant to get closer to linking LA and SF

Give me a break. The Trump administration is a small part in that absolute boondoggle.

> I don't really understand why because their main audience is rural people and those are the worst hit.

For rail specifically: for rural Americans, passenger rail worth the name (aka what we get in Europe) is something that they see as unachievable, something for "librul city dwellers". When all they get from rail is noise and crossings blocked for hours [1], it's hardly a surprise that rail ends up being yet another culture war issue.

> Ps can't read the article as it's paywalled

Go to archive . today, enter the URL of a paywalled site, pass a CAPTCHA, off you go. It works with a bunch of popular news sites to bypass their paywalls, and for free but ad-infested, you'll get an ad-free experience.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/business/blocked-rail-cro...

I live in a rural area, close enough to an Amtrak line that people absolutely take it when they need to head into a city. I've never heard anyone talk about it being part of a culture war, and definitely not a liberal/conservative thing. It is transportation. People take it if it works for them.

> For rail specifically: for rural Americans, passenger rail worth the name (aka what we get in Europe) is something that they see as unachievable, something for "librul city dwellers". When all they get from rail is noise and crossings blocked for hours [1], it's hardly a surprise that rail ends up being yet another culture war issue.

True, I meant climate change denial but I wasnt very clear. Like opposing everything that's eco friendly, not the trains in particular. But that's a point!

It works on many sites, but the Economist has foiled it as far as I can tell. This one just shows the same snippet you'd get in a regular browser

Yeah this. I tried that like I always do.

Ps I wasn't trying to troll, it's a serious question, I really think it's in the best interests of rural people to push for CO2 reduction. Especially in America which is the biggest polluter globally.

Though the rolling coal thing could be a bit of a sneer. Sorry

  for rural Americans, passenger rail worth the name (aka what we get in
  Europe) is something that they see as unachievable

Which is a shame because it wasn't always like that.

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