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“There’s no use building railways in North America. The cities are just too far apart. Face reality: we need planes and cars!” Here’s a map of Spain’s high-speed network overlaid on the Midwest, with #Madrid in the place of #Chicago.

7/5/26, 6:28 pm29 reposts87 likes

Geoff

@geoffdeburca.bsky.social

7 May

Also Spain is way more mountainous than that bit of North America and they’ve built all of that in the past 30 years

HorselessAge

@horselessage.bsky.social

7 May

Well to be fair, the Midwest is a lot more mountainous than Spain…

Prime157 - 💙Vote Blue no matter who... or STFU💙

@prime157.bsky.social

7 May

Damn Koch Brothers and their lobbies. They've killed so many train bills to fatten their blood money.

Moody Brutalist

@edbcn.bsky.social

7 May

I've often pointed out that Spain has about 20% more area and population than California and 2500 miles of high speed 🚄 rail to California's zero miles. Spain has about 1000 additional miles under construction/ development, which is also more than California has.