Comments by "Dean Schulze" (@deanschulze3129) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. This is propaganda and Andy Kunz is spreading conspiracy theories. Street cars are not high speed rail. High speed rail is for long distance travel, not commuting to work from the suburbs. High speed rail competes with air travel for medium and long distances. There is no mention as to how high speed rail would compare to air travel. Freeways aren't the reason why we don't have high speed rail. European countries with high speed rail have freeways too. Germany's autobahn was the motivation for the US interstate system. There was no mention of the losses incurred by passenger rail lines around the world. The last data I've seen showed that there are only 2 profitable commuter rail lines in the world: Paris to Lion and Osaka to Tokyo. The rest require subsidies. They mentioned the Acela line. How much money does the Acela line lose? California is showing what a boondoggle high speed rail is. It's dishonest to ignore the enormous cost overruns. Bakersfiled to Merced? How many people would use it? The private sector initiatives in Texas and Florida are interesting. Let's see how they do. Riding on a train has to be more comfortable than being crammed into an airplane. Maybe they can show California how to do high speed rail.
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  2. So we should change our zoning laws to support public transportation. High density housing everywhere with no regard for quality of life. People live in the suburbs because we want to have a real back yard, parks, and open space. But these experts want the public transportation system to be our masters rather than something built to serve us. We should ruin suburban living to support the all-important public transportation system.
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  3.  @tubz  - We are closer than you realize to being forced to change our lifestyles. This year the Colorado legislature narrowly defeated proposal backed by governor Polis to "Up-zone" the entire state. Zoning laws would be made at the state level with the goal of increasing population densities, especially in suburbs. The state would have done away with single family zoning in many urban and suburban areas allowing anyone to turn their single family house into a duplex or triplex and build separate dwellings in their back yards. Suburbs in the Denver area have already built high-density townhomes (CrackerJack box buildings) near light rail stops in order to make the light rail feasible.
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