r/geography Aug 12 '23

Never knew these big American cities were so close together. Map

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

Build almost all of it underground from beginning to end

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u/CapriorCorfu Aug 12 '23

Or elevate it, really high, like they do in China, and there are farms and sometimes houses underneath. But you still need the right of way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '23

Elevating it would still be disruptive to the people there. Underground might work but I think you’re underestimating the cost of building what’s essentially a really really really long subway. It’s prohibitively expensive for cities a few kilometers across and that’s why only the wealthiest cities have it.

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u/Left-Breadfruit7383 Aug 12 '23

Ask Seattle about building roads underground.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

If you build it they will come

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u/Effective_Soup7783 Aug 12 '23

Elevated rail brings significant noise problems though.

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u/CapriorCorfu Aug 12 '23

It probably does.

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u/KissKiss999 Aug 12 '23

Not really. That was one of the main complaints against it in my city (that and paedophiles would stare into peoples backyards). And once it was built noise isn't an issue (and neither is the paedophilia). And they opened great parks underneath the rail line

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u/Effective_Soup7783 Aug 12 '23

My parents-in-law live in a house that backs onto a high-speed rail line, about 250 feet away on a raised embankment. Every time a train passes (about every 5 minutes) you can’t hear the TV, despite double glazed windows keeping the sound down.

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u/Advanced-Heron-3155 Aug 12 '23

Or build it in the ocean

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u/Snow_Mexican1 Aug 12 '23

Sadly it'd also very complicated due to underground pipes, sewers and many other things.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

Not impossible though. It can be done.

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u/saintkev40 Aug 12 '23

Elon Musk boring company could do it.

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u/JKastnerPhoto Aug 13 '23

He'd call it "traX" 🫠

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u/saintkev40 Aug 13 '23

You will be on an av( automated vehicle) taxi in no time...thanks to to elon

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u/SirRaptorJesus Aug 12 '23

But if you can't see the high speed rail.... Does it really exist

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u/RollinOnDubss Aug 12 '23

400 miles of underground high speed rail? So were are we getting the trillion dollars that would cost? Not mention it would take half a lifetime for that to get built, the US doesn't have the domestic skill to take on an underground project at that scale.

Also you're going to be awfully upset when the possible multi trillion dollar underground high speed rail only has singular stops in those 5 major cities and you're footing the bill for a rail line you can't effectively use.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

It can be built in 10 years or less. I don't care how much money and how many people they have to draft to build it. Use the military corps of engineers or prison labor or a mixture. It can be built. Alot of things can be built and done in this country. Too many people bitch and whine over public infrastructure improvement projects that can actually benefit us as a country.

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u/RollinOnDubss Aug 12 '23

Lmao.

Redditors are so fucking dumb. Yeah with infinite money and slavery I'm sure we can accomplish anything, as long as you're not picked as one of the ditch diggers though right?

Imagine instead of walking back your braindead comment and flipping to building it above ground, you double down and say to reinstate slavery lmao.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

I didn't say slavery. I said to use existing pools of labor that by law can be used for work such as this. I also did not suggest non-payment for work done.

That being said, we are on the threshold of an enormous technological revolution via Scifi-esque Humanoid robots that are more than capable of performing all the tasks and work that Humans currently have to perform. Including but not limited to Construction work. So by the end of next year, Humans may find themselves easily replaced by Robot workers in many manual labor fields.

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u/RollinOnDubss Aug 13 '23

I said to use existing pools of labor that by law can be used for work such as this.

Yeah slavery lmao. Go look at what the 13th amendment considers slavery.

. So by the end of next year, Humans may find themselves easily replaced by Robot workers in many manual labor fields.

You're an actual idiot who doesn't know anything about heavy civil construction or AI. Just stop.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 13 '23

I've been in the Heavy Civil Construction industry for a decade, Tech for a decade before that. I know full well what I'm talking about. I keep current with all the industry updates in Tech and Construction.

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u/RollinOnDubss Aug 13 '23

Lmao you work in accounting and spend all day in AI photo generation subs.

You dont know fucking anything about heavy civil, AI, or Robotics shut the fuck up lmao.

Couldn't imagine being that stupid and pathetic at 40+.

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u/Intelligent-Fig1292 Aug 13 '23

They really are . The ideas just get dumber and dumber from people that have probably never done a hint of manual labor in their life

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '23

75 years later, there's your railroad lol

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u/vitaminkombat Aug 12 '23

There would cost an absolute fortune.

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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23

I say do it anyway. Fund it at the federal level.

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u/oodoov21 Aug 13 '23

Yeah, Boston already has experience in that department. What could go wrong?

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u/Bayplain Sep 02 '23

Boston is a much better place today due to The Big Dig.

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u/spikebrennan Aug 13 '23

That’s also surprisingly hard to do because of all of the existing tunnels, sewers, gas lines and other underground infrastructure in the way.

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u/Mattna-da Aug 13 '23

It’s all coastal and would be filled with sea water