Oh, come now. Not when you consider the number of college funds, swimming pools, golf outings, and new BMWs it made possible.
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True; Rob Ford was Trump writ smaller.
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Granted, the distance between London and Birmingham (125 miles) is shorter than the distance between Nee York City and Albany (145 miles) so the distances here in the US would probably be prohibitively expensive in order to do a meaningful high speed rail network. Still, it would be nice to have.
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The US does not have anywhere near the UK’s population density though, so land prices may be cheaper.
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If you factor in places like Wyoming, that’s probably true, but if you just included the DC/Philadelphia/New York/Boston corridor, I’m certain we’d give you a run for your money.
Depends on how you value your time. Taking the bus to work for my wife every day is an hour plus each way, dealing with inclement weather and off schedule buses and many other variables.
In a car it takes ten minutes.
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It would, but in the US you have the option of having most of the line in less dense rural areas and having spur lines back into the cities. The few HS2 rural areas include Oxfordshire and Cheshire, where all the millionaires live. Then there is the speculative phase 3 line that goes through Cumbria, which is mostly a national park.
I would not be surprised if the US would be able to do it cheaper than we have.
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The value of one’s time can go $300/hr, or $15/hr, or minimum wage. I was pointing to total costs, not your costs. Wealth disparity is part of the market distortions that enforce the status quo.
In a more sustainable society, your time might not be worth so much money, and your wife might have time to walk to work, with different zoning. Cars have distorted just about every aspect of american life.
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And anyway there is a solution, between a car an a pushbike. The motorbike, or a scooter An electric moped witha 5 HP engine costs only a bit more than a 50 cc petrol one and less than a 125 cc one. with the added benefit that if one goes to electric ones the batteries are swappable.
The moped are a solution in Europe where the Middle age town with narrow streets are present.
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Not to mention Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu, Paulaner, and Spaten. THat on other hand is why public transportation is important in Munich to prevent DUI. 
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You forgot:
- Giessinger
- Crew Republic
- Munich Brew Mafia
- Haderner Bräu
All better choices for the hipster brew lover. Though really, alcohol consumption in the city isn’t much higher than in the Outback, mainly because of all the tourists. And the Wies’n.
Really, Munich has the 1972 Olympic Games to thank for its transportation network, as winning the Games was what freed up the money for the first underground lines. That, and the simple fact that most European cities just aren’t car friendly, with little to no parking downtown.
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He was Trump, but without a 27% base of white supremacy, in a country with functional institutions. There will always be monsters. It’s on all of us to create an environment where they wither on the vine as quickly as possible.
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And I think we in Ontario are all surprised that Dougie Ford is handling the covid crisis better than Trump is.
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I think that some type of zoning, that discard the public transportation are cheaper compared to one that don’t rely on cars.
Building houses without commercial zone even condos with an empty ground floor instead of shops, and then building big mall with huge parking lots in the middle of nowhere. So in addition to have to commute by car people have to go shopping by car.
A turnip would handle COVID better than Trump is. I tell my family all the time that “you aren’t hearing most of the news up there. It’s way, way worse down here in The States than you think it is”. They imagine Trump as just another Mulroney-esque self-serving politician. Not, you know, an actual fascist who has brought the United States to the brink of civil war.
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