Why are trainfags obsessed with HSR when 99% of mechanized passenger travel is local.

hi /n/
I am enrolling the Galveston maritime academy this Fall. By the time I graduate in four years what do you guys predict the American Merchant Marine will appear like? I was told that engineer officers have good job prospects by the colleges and by some Mariners I know. But I also hear that getting a job at MSC is a bitch and that union jobs are drying up? Is the job scarcity mostly on the unlicensed side or even officers will suffer. btw any Galveston alumni pls tell me how bad the Corp of Cadets is

Mexican railways thread? The government of Mexico is trying to bring back long distance passenger routes and building light rail in the Mexico City metropolitan area
Railway history in Mexico is actually very interesting. They used to have a national railway company called FNM after they nationalized all the railroad companies in 1908, until the 1990s when they privatized it.
>Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway - three lines
>Buenavista to AIFA airport to Pachuca intercity railway
>Texcoco to La Paz light rail
>Costeno, Jarocho route revival
>Mayan Train

I NEED electronic shifting!
It's SOOOO much better and faster and smoother than cable shifters!
Shimano please take my one thousand american dollars to make my shifting divine forever! *
(*- until next iteration of Di2 releases)

What would you do in this situation?

>Finally finished that 90s MTB resto conversion mod
>It rides badly

Do you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there?

>yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date
>it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years
>even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone

post examples of road construction, transit route planning, intersection management, and other retarded city council decisions even the most cagebrained cannot defend

If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?

If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks?

It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.

>1915 miles on a single gallon
>40mpg cafe is unreasonable

https://magazine.byu.edu/article/not-so-fast-not-so-furious/