The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoHas anyone tried pitching high speed rail to the 65+ crowd like this before?startrek.websiteimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down110
arrow-up1572arrow-down1imageHas anyone tried pitching high speed rail to the 65+ crowd like this before?startrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 years agoIf you could get the over 65 set to realize the rail lines will help them get somewhere when their kid is at work, they might go for it. But I’m not sure.
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 years agoI wish we could normalize it everywhere. I think most people would like trains, but only if they didn’t have to also drive and park at a station, which is how so much of the country is set up now.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoGuarantee that every trip will have a Bullet Train scenario going on and I’m down
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah but hilariously they’ll all be dead before it’s finished.
minus-squareTurducken@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoA society grows great when old men plant tree they will not sit in the shade of.
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minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoThat’s how I convinced my grandpa
If you could get the over 65 set to realize the rail lines will help them get somewhere when their kid is at work, they might go for it.
But I’m not sure.
I wish we could normalize it everywhere. I think most people would like trains, but only if they didn’t have to also drive and park at a station, which is how so much of the country is set up now.
Guarantee that every trip will have a Bullet Train scenario going on and I’m down
Yeah but hilariously they’ll all be dead before it’s finished.
A society grows great when old men plant tree they will not sit in the shade of.
https://youtu.be/7a7sVtnPQug
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/7a7sVtnPQug
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Win-win?
That’s how I convinced my grandpa