There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s.
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There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s.
They went ahead and built it—and now the low-emission, affordable, convenient shinkansen system is the envy of the world.
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There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s.
They went ahead and built it—and now the low-emission, affordable, convenient shinkansen system is the envy of the world.
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60 years later, #Canada wants to build its first high-speed rail route, between #Quebec City and #Toronto.
Landowners are protesting. (In ways they don't when highways are built.)
I look at history of opposition to railways in this High Speed newsletter:
Not in My Back Forty!
Every Transport Project Worth Building Faced Protests. Canada's Alto High-Speed Rail Line is No Exception.
High Speed (www.highspeed.blog)
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60 years later, #Canada wants to build its first high-speed rail route, between #Quebec City and #Toronto.
Landowners are protesting. (In ways they don't when highways are built.)
I look at history of opposition to railways in this High Speed newsletter:
Not in My Back Forty!
Every Transport Project Worth Building Faced Protests. Canada's Alto High-Speed Rail Line is No Exception.
High Speed (www.highspeed.blog)
@straphanger sounds exactly like Texas on this topic. It's sad.
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There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s.
They went ahead and built it—and now the low-emission, affordable, convenient shinkansen system is the envy of the world.
🧵
@straphanger exactly
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@straphanger sounds exactly like Texas on this topic. It's sad.
@RVLara23 @straphanger
There must be ties in communities between car-dependant economies and wealthy farm-landownersOwning car-dealerships and farmland both put you in the landed gentry
Those who profit off constant highway and road maintenance projects likewise might be related?
Whereas the rail money might not be guaranteed to flow into those pockets?
If corruption was assured the project would go down easier
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There was lots of protest when #Japan announced it was building the world's first bullet-train in the early 1960s.
They went ahead and built it—and now the low-emission, affordable, convenient shinkansen system is the envy of the world.
🧵
@straphanger there still is. Taken at one of the Kyoto temples.
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