"All the studies show, by the way — people get from point A to point B faster on a train than their car they take the train! They take the train."
-- President Biden (yesterday)
I paused over this. In about 99-percent of the US....there's no real train network. If you did live in NY City and wanted to venture to Chicago....it takes about 23 hours to make the journey on AMTRAK. If you drove? It's just over 12 hours (assuming you drive a 'safe' speed. If you flew? It's a 2.5 hour flight.
A bad example? Well, here's the thing (note, I've ridden on AMTRAK)....the vast majority of the network moves along at 30 to 40 mph. The tracks are 'crap' on the majority of routes and it's physically impossible to stand...if the train was moving at 70 mph (like you'd experience in France or Germany).
I'm not anti-train, but the days that existed in the 1920s when most Americans got around the nation, from one major city/town to another....on a train...have passed.
The only way that rail continues on? If you rig up a ban on flights, or make travel by car nearly impossible.
What studies does he talk about? I think it's about a 99-percent bogus statement and just some handlers who briefed him to say this, and the public would believe it without any question.
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As a potential True Believer, I was ruined by author Robert Heinlein and his:
* if something is commonly accepted knowledge, you can bet it has zero relationship with reality [paraphrased].
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Hence, this new improved 'All The Studies Show' pretty much aligns with any other jo-ro-bi proclamations...
... the whole bunch of them self-devolving into the category of nincompoopery.
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