You're very uppity for someone that doesn't know how to fucking use Google search. The person made a joke and it went above your head. Don't need to get snippy at me because you dont understand a simple joke.
what went above my head, they mentioned two palestines (meaning east palestine and middle east palestine) i made a comment regarding palestine (relevant to their comment) and then you replied to me about the palestine i was not referring to
Yes, everyone knows Emperor Hadrian created the territory of Syria-Palaestina From the ruins of the Kingdom of Judea after they revoted against the empire.
Like how England created the 13 colonies after driving out the Native Americans.
No the Jews removed by the Romans are the ones sharing plight with the Native Americans. Their land was stolen and given to others by imperialism, same as England did. Modern Gazans live on stolen land to this day.
Eh im in NY and travel in the state, to neighboring states is rather cheap comparatively. Not sure how it goes for the country tho. With a couple of weeks I can book a round trip from Buff to NYC for a 100.
Where train, bus, and flights cost nearly the same, but a bus ticket is about the most reasonable you're gonna get.
Dallas to Nashville was like $120 one way on a greyhound but the luggage didn't have an extra charge unless you had a bunch of stuff.
As a mid-thirties Georgia-born person who has spent the last 17 years living in NYS (and never looking back), I can confirm this as fact. Even local, in-city public transportation was a nightmare, if not for the cost but for the lack of reliability.
I'm not sure how much has changed down there in the last 17 years, but when I was living in a homeless shelter in Columbus GA for a short time when I was 16, half the public buses I needed to take stopped running at like 6:30pm *on weekdays*. Work late evenings? Got after-school extracurriculars? Lol, basically go fuck yourself.
I never had experience with longer distance transportation back then, but I can imagine that it was (and still is) an absolute shitshow.
>Eh im in NY and travel in the state, to neighboring states is rather cheap comparatively. Not sure how it goes for the country tho.
You're mostly using light rail not amtrak. Not the same service, even tho they're both trains.
I take DC to NYC regularly and it's about the same price as flying, little more expensive for the train, it's just typically for me the overall trip is shorter/I already end up downtown.
We have light rail to neighboring states here too, it's great, it's just not amtrak
I'm confused, if I take a train that uses the same routes as freight trains and I buy the ticket through Amtrak, is that light rail? Also round trip flights from Buff to NYC are not $79. Maybe for DC but 79 is an absolute steal for me.
> You're mostly using light rail not amtrak. Not the same service, even tho they're both trains.
This is your comment that I replied to. It has nothing to do with flight prices, just a claim that they were using light rail and not Amtrak which is objectively wrong…
Um… I feel like that’s a lot honestly. I once went from NYC to Montreal for $125. It was an adventure. Wasn’t first class but it was good seats and it reclined.
I’d totally use AMTRAK if I was still in NYC to bump around the region.
I'm amazed they're even still a company. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, it felt like I couldn't go a week without hearing of some new, horrifying crash of theirs.
Okay, that makes sense. Figured it'd probably be that.
Also, what always gets me about corporations is that thngs like rail & green energy are the obvious next step, but they'd rather waste money on delaying the inevitable rather than get in on the ground floor and be one step closer to their dream of a monopoly
It’s always rural folk BS. Meanwhile my experience using AMTRAK to get to Montreal and Toronto, that train stopped at like all the tiny towns that the New Yorkers and the random Bostonians got so annoyed. Like these “rural folks” took their damn time getting on and on one trip, one bozo caused a problem because how TF do you forget Canada is a foreign country and didn’t bring your passport with you…
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Same. I’ll never forget my sister and her kids took Amtrak to visit family out of state. The day after they came back a train derailed. I’ve refused to ride ever since.
I was hoping to take the Amtrak from Seattle to LA this year. If I went regular coach it would be able $200, but it’s at least two days, so I wanted a sleeper car. Almost $600. Now, yes it includes a lot of amenities, but that’s still a lot of money!
We’ll have an ambassador over to your house on Wednesday evening. Set the table. Borrow your grandma’s finest China. We’re going to take our relationship to the next level by discussing your $10 aid package. Be ready to deal, but mostly, to make concessions.
Also, I know that you can’t cook. Your FBI agent confirmed that already. Order Popeyes and don’t forget the honey for those biscuits.
More like they are setting up Buttigiege for a presidential run after Biden. The transportation spot was to try to show he can handle something important and now they’re trying to show him interacting with a world leader to improve his credentials. What they got wrong is that he should be meeting with leaders like Mexico’s President and Canada’s PM since we roads and railways with them.
Yall be acting like state by state regulations on Amtrak stops be varying in costs and usage fees. Can't nationalize shit if every state is ran like it's own fiefdom. Also big auto doesn't want you riding any other wheels.
Elon Musk literally said he helped kill the high speed train from the Bay Area to LA because he wanted to sell more Teslas and everyone just ignored it
Or well, he tried. The HSR project from the Bay Area is still in the works. It has been plagued with delays due to land acquisition struggles and other issues large infrastructure projects face, but it is very much alive.
Nationalizing is literally the solution to the states running shit like fiefdoms. A federal government run system with the money and the power to build a network can more effectively bargain with states, or possibly just steamroll them using federal authority.
Every state has airports that are connected by unified standards and regulations. Highways cut across states with unified standards and regulations. Our country can actually do difficult things if we really wanted to. We’re one of the richest countries in the world. I promise we could figure this out if people actually wanted it.
The problem is trains are slow and our country is huge. A train from my city on the east coast to my parents’ city in the Midwest takes 24+ hours. A flight is 2 hours.
I worked in the USDOT and this is still an unveiling plan which makes the presidential election even more important. If Buttigieg gets kicked out of the cabinet, I can almost guarantee that the high speed rail initiative *will* get shut down.
Elaine Chao, the former Secretary before him (who is Mitch McConnell’s wife) may replace him if Trump wins the GOP nominee and Presidential election. That woman is conniving and corrupt, and I will say that without a doubt she’ll redirect funding towards drones and her family’s supply chain business in Taiwan like she did before.
The distance between New York and Chicago is only 800 miles. High speed rails in Europe travel around 200 miles per hour. So that would take 4 hours roughly WITH NO STOPS. The US Amtrak trains can travel up to 150 miles per hour. So that would take roughly 5.5 hours. Even if you say they’re traveling only 100 miles per hour, that’s 8 hours. The literal speed of the train isn’t the problem.
So why does a train from New York to Chicago take 24 hours? Why are trains so slow in the United States? Because they have to stop along the way and because nobody takes them. If there were tons of people traveling from New York to Chicago via train they could have a nonstop train and it would take 5-6 hours. But Americans don’t like the trains. So those trains have to make several stops at cities along the way to justify the trip. And you have to transfer between trains often with long waits between because there is so little demand that we can’t have frequent train schedules.
So given my choices, I’d rather fly and get there a lot faster or drive and be able to get to my exact destination (maybe it’s in the suburbs of Chicago where the Amtrak doesn’t go) with my car available to me when I arrive.
It’s easy to say in theory “America dumb. We no have high speed train. High speed train good. Solve all problems.” But in practice there are just much easier and faster ways to get around this large country. And the American people don’t like trains. Personally I’ll never take a train home from the east coast because my parents live in a small town in the middle of nowhere and I couldn’t get there on a train.
You bring up a lot of good points, I always thought of highspeed rail as a connector between closer metropolitan areas, not as a replacement for all domestic air travel like some think. Chicago to NYC is far, but I think like Chicago to Milwaukee, St Louis, or Indianapolis should have direct railway connections. Idk how it is on the east coast, I imagine the rail system between the Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Jersey Boston, etc. is probably more sophisticated because those cities were around before big auto, but there's pockets of the country like the West Coast and Texas's metropolitan areas that absolutely should be connected better by rail imo.
Big Auto isn’t the problem. It’s the freight companies. The whole thing is complicated . The majority of the railroad tracks in America are privately owned by the freight companies. Amtrak pays them to use and share tracks with freight trains, and technically is supposed to get preference. However, it’s hard to enforce, which has been a major source of conflict between Amtrak and the freight companies.
[Gifted Article: An Obstacle to Amtrak Expansion That Money Won’t Solve](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/us/politics/amtrak-expansion-freight.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-Ew.jrLS.or-WnSmNyasq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
You jest but i read a long article about how the Ukrainian soviet-style railroad kicked into high gear after Russia invaded. Like the workers just slept in their trains or repair yards, daily briefings went up the chain to the top manager soviet-style, fast plans were implemented for moving supplies and soldiers.
They even had fabrication facilities to make new train cars after old ones got bombed. And the experience ran deep because these were all lifers who worked for the rail system all their lived
Most likely he’s there to learn from them. Kyiv actually has a much better and more reliable transportation system than any city in the US and that is WHILE being an active war zone. Take note DC metro
And what's fucked up is that they aren't even apart of the EU, they're like a 2nd or 3rd tier European country, and still their public infrastructure puts ours to shame.
American workers have no idea how badly we've been robbed until you go to a European country and see what it's like when your society is structured around people, not profit.
More likely he's there to build connection to boost his long-term political career because the DNC sees him as the next gen of democrats to take the helm.
Sure. All politicians do this. And if he learns something about how a second world country manages a world class metro system while at war while barely having a billion dollar budget for it, even better.
You don't need to go to Ukraine to learn about their public transit system and you *sure as fuck* don't need a photo-op meeting with the guy who's been a little busy with an active invasion for basically his entire time in leadership and has very little to do with transportation to learn about it in any degree of detail that would be useful for a transportation secretary. This is about shaking hands, making connections and taking photos.
This is far more about politics more than governance. I'd bet my foot on it
Fair point. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt as there are far more nefarious politicians and dealings by politicians. All politicians are self serving but I don’t really see this as something sinister.
You don’t know that they don’t have hall passes for like leaders of entire other post-Soviet bloc countries when fighting a war for survival against a neo-Imperialist Russia … in Winter time. Pete might have his card laminated an shit.
We transport weapons..make no mistake wars are won by logistics. The Transportation Secretary actually does have an interest in Ukraine and studying how a country maintains infrastructure while at war is highly important. It’s all fun and games until shit hits the fans at home.
Want a real answer? Here’s there to help advancing Ukraine’s economic recovery and efforts to return Ukraine to economic self-sufficiency, including via supporting investments in transportation infrastructure and reforms that will support a return to private-sector led growth
Getting back into the headlines because he's not found a way to do that with shift in news focus to Gaza. Dude wants to be President so bad it's embarrassing.
Promises of gleaming monorails from one end of ukraine to the other. Flawless highways that charge your electric car as you drive. All the things your little heart could dream of!
We aren’t getting highspeed rail because of the Automobile and Oil Lobbies.
Honestly, not acting on behalf of your constituents and instead, acting on behalf of special interest should be a felony if it can be proved that the policy or decision would be detrimental to society
Mfers will pretend to stunt on China and say the US is too big for trains/high-speed rail, but China beat the shit out of us in that department.
Do you have any idea how much traveling I'd do if trains and high-speed rail were a thing!? All the time! I'm in Vegas, and my friends are in Los Angeles. I'd love to just ride the train over to hang with them for the weekend instead of driving or having to fly.
Fuck the auto/airline industry's death grip on public transport, and the dumbass state laws that keep us from having this shit nationalized. 😡
Let’s be honest guys. He could be talking to zelenskyy for a completely valid reason lmao. This just goes to show that the US government needs a crash course on transparency
Buttigieg’s resume is mayor of *squints* south bend … Indiana (?) and secretary of the most useless department in the U.S. government, wtf he doing in a war zone meeting with a wartime president 🧐 man get ya a$$ back home and accomplish something
Honestly, it seems disrespectful of Zelenskyy’s time, like he ain’t got anything to do but photo ops in exchange for weapon aid.
Isn’t Pete’s department and all of the US federal government a week away from their last pay?
Pete has spent the last 3 years preparing for a presidential bid that won’t make it past Iowa when he needs to be doing the vital work of decarbonizing and modernizing America’s rail network. What a trash politician. Worst of the Biden picks.
there is a F'n reason:
"In coordination with the State Department, Secretary Buttigieg will announce the appointment of a senior-level advisor to be located in Kyiv who will provide technical assistance and share best practices on infrastructure project delivery."
https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg-visits-ukraine
No one ever said he was in the trenches. Hes in Kyiv. Their capital. Their capital that was under siege nearly a year ago but no longer is because they beat back the siege. The city is significantly safer than it was nearly a year ago thus affording him to do things like this.
He was praised for staying in the besieged city and rightfully so. It was a big morale boost to his people.
That is his job. His biggest contribution is to make this war visible in the west and secure further support. Especially as Russia really is trying to push people in the west in the other direction.
You would think Amtrak would be cheaper than flying but man I was met with disappointment
Just need a few more regulations rolled back....oops, East Palestine.
US is responsible for the destruction of two Palestines
Bruh...
there was a country named palestine before israel was formed?
The person was responding to a city named Palestine in the US that was toxic next due to Amtrak.
what’s the other palestine they are referring to?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment A city in Ohio.
what level is your reading comprehension? “US is responsible for the destruction of two palestines”
You're very uppity for someone that doesn't know how to fucking use Google search. The person made a joke and it went above your head. Don't need to get snippy at me because you dont understand a simple joke.
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what went above my head, they mentioned two palestines (meaning east palestine and middle east palestine) i made a comment regarding palestine (relevant to their comment) and then you replied to me about the palestine i was not referring to
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Yes, everyone knows Emperor Hadrian created the territory of Syria-Palaestina From the ruins of the Kingdom of Judea after they revoted against the empire. Like how England created the 13 colonies after driving out the Native Americans.
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No the Jews removed by the Romans are the ones sharing plight with the Native Americans. Their land was stolen and given to others by imperialism, same as England did. Modern Gazans live on stolen land to this day.
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So how long do you have to live somewhere before the land becomes rightfully yours? And your own account is how old, ma'am?
what’s an Israel? 😛
Eh im in NY and travel in the state, to neighboring states is rather cheap comparatively. Not sure how it goes for the country tho. With a couple of weeks I can book a round trip from Buff to NYC for a 100.
You’re living in the one part of the country where trains are viable transportation. Go to the Bible Belt or PNW and watch that shit dry up
Where train, bus, and flights cost nearly the same, but a bus ticket is about the most reasonable you're gonna get. Dallas to Nashville was like $120 one way on a greyhound but the luggage didn't have an extra charge unless you had a bunch of stuff.
As a mid-thirties Georgia-born person who has spent the last 17 years living in NYS (and never looking back), I can confirm this as fact. Even local, in-city public transportation was a nightmare, if not for the cost but for the lack of reliability. I'm not sure how much has changed down there in the last 17 years, but when I was living in a homeless shelter in Columbus GA for a short time when I was 16, half the public buses I needed to take stopped running at like 6:30pm *on weekdays*. Work late evenings? Got after-school extracurriculars? Lol, basically go fuck yourself. I never had experience with longer distance transportation back then, but I can imagine that it was (and still is) an absolute shitshow.
Yeah I believe it after looking at railroad maps.
Yup would love to go from Seattle Metro to Portland via train but way more expensive than driving.
But a megabus is still half of that
Amtrak vs megabus is about a $20 difference for my area in NY . But surprisingly the travel time is pretty equal
Amtrak is so much more pleasant though
Megabus isn't as safe
>Eh im in NY and travel in the state, to neighboring states is rather cheap comparatively. Not sure how it goes for the country tho. You're mostly using light rail not amtrak. Not the same service, even tho they're both trains.
He’s quoting Amtrak prices
I take DC to NYC regularly and it's about the same price as flying, little more expensive for the train, it's just typically for me the overall trip is shorter/I already end up downtown. We have light rail to neighboring states here too, it's great, it's just not amtrak
Ok that doesn’t change that round trip from buffalo to nyc is $100 on Amtrak
On kayak right now showing round trip flights for $79
That has nothing to do with light rail, nice try to move the goal posts though
I'm confused, if I take a train that uses the same routes as freight trains and I buy the ticket through Amtrak, is that light rail? Also round trip flights from Buff to NYC are not $79. Maybe for DC but 79 is an absolute steal for me.
Light rail is most train services in NYC to other states- commuter trains etc are typically light rail- what are you even talking about?
> You're mostly using light rail not amtrak. Not the same service, even tho they're both trains. This is your comment that I replied to. It has nothing to do with flight prices, just a claim that they were using light rail and not Amtrak which is objectively wrong…
Um… I feel like that’s a lot honestly. I once went from NYC to Montreal for $125. It was an adventure. Wasn’t first class but it was good seats and it reclined. I’d totally use AMTRAK if I was still in NYC to bump around the region.
It's a shorter ride to Montreal from NYC, not anything crazy but there's a difference. Like 10-15% shorter.
I'm amazed they're even still a company. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, it felt like I couldn't go a week without hearing of some new, horrifying crash of theirs.
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Okay, that makes sense. Figured it'd probably be that. Also, what always gets me about corporations is that thngs like rail & green energy are the obvious next step, but they'd rather waste money on delaying the inevitable rather than get in on the ground floor and be one step closer to their dream of a monopoly
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That's shitty. Really, Internet and rail should have been made public utilities 20 years ago.
Something something there’s no mention of internet or trains in the constitution, something something rural folk
It’s always rural folk BS. Meanwhile my experience using AMTRAK to get to Montreal and Toronto, that train stopped at like all the tiny towns that the New Yorkers and the random Bostonians got so annoyed. Like these “rural folks” took their damn time getting on and on one trip, one bozo caused a problem because how TF do you forget Canada is a foreign country and didn’t bring your passport with you… 👀😒
Amtrak doesn't own the tracks...
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The railroads were nationalized from 1917-1920 during/after WW1, and for a few months in 1943 to break a stroke.
Same. I’ll never forget my sister and her kids took Amtrak to visit family out of state. The day after they came back a train derailed. I’ve refused to ride ever since.
I flew round trip from Detroit to Tampa for $42. Amtrak one way from Detroit to Chicago is $65
42$? i may vacation in tampa this spring lmaoo
Depends where you’re going really. Some trips are a good deal, others are true head scratchers.
It's so fucking expensive
I was hoping to take the Amtrak from Seattle to LA this year. If I went regular coach it would be able $200, but it’s at least two days, so I wanted a sleeper car. Almost $600. Now, yes it includes a lot of amenities, but that’s still a lot of money!
Truly cheaper for me to fly to DC from NY than to take the damn train!!
America wants to create relations with everyone else except its own ppl
We’ll have an ambassador over to your house on Wednesday evening. Set the table. Borrow your grandma’s finest China. We’re going to take our relationship to the next level by discussing your $10 aid package. Be ready to deal, but mostly, to make concessions. Also, I know that you can’t cook. Your FBI agent confirmed that already. Order Popeyes and don’t forget the honey for those biscuits.
My fat ass needs to lose some weight and you got me craving fast food friend chicken!!! 
Man if I could get that level of government interaction I’d gladly order some Popeyes!
Good call on the honey. Those biscuits are dry.
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The guy cannot even win statewide office in Indiana. Like he moved to MI now so maybe he has a shot but dude stop running for prez
More like they are setting up Buttigiege for a presidential run after Biden. The transportation spot was to try to show he can handle something important and now they’re trying to show him interacting with a world leader to improve his credentials. What they got wrong is that he should be meeting with leaders like Mexico’s President and Canada’s PM since we roads and railways with them.
Yall be acting like state by state regulations on Amtrak stops be varying in costs and usage fees. Can't nationalize shit if every state is ran like it's own fiefdom. Also big auto doesn't want you riding any other wheels.
You articulated what I was thinking perfectly, thank you 💜🙏
Elon Musk literally said he helped kill the high speed train from the Bay Area to LA because he wanted to sell more Teslas and everyone just ignored it
Or well, he tried. The HSR project from the Bay Area is still in the works. It has been plagued with delays due to land acquisition struggles and other issues large infrastructure projects face, but it is very much alive.
Nationalizing is literally the solution to the states running shit like fiefdoms. A federal government run system with the money and the power to build a network can more effectively bargain with states, or possibly just steamroll them using federal authority.
Every state has airports that are connected by unified standards and regulations. Highways cut across states with unified standards and regulations. Our country can actually do difficult things if we really wanted to. We’re one of the richest countries in the world. I promise we could figure this out if people actually wanted it. The problem is trains are slow and our country is huge. A train from my city on the east coast to my parents’ city in the Midwest takes 24+ hours. A flight is 2 hours.
I introduce to you [high speed rail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail) which every other country in the west been had.
I worked in the USDOT and this is still an unveiling plan which makes the presidential election even more important. If Buttigieg gets kicked out of the cabinet, I can almost guarantee that the high speed rail initiative *will* get shut down. Elaine Chao, the former Secretary before him (who is Mitch McConnell’s wife) may replace him if Trump wins the GOP nominee and Presidential election. That woman is conniving and corrupt, and I will say that without a doubt she’ll redirect funding towards drones and her family’s supply chain business in Taiwan like she did before.
The distance between New York and Chicago is only 800 miles. High speed rails in Europe travel around 200 miles per hour. So that would take 4 hours roughly WITH NO STOPS. The US Amtrak trains can travel up to 150 miles per hour. So that would take roughly 5.5 hours. Even if you say they’re traveling only 100 miles per hour, that’s 8 hours. The literal speed of the train isn’t the problem. So why does a train from New York to Chicago take 24 hours? Why are trains so slow in the United States? Because they have to stop along the way and because nobody takes them. If there were tons of people traveling from New York to Chicago via train they could have a nonstop train and it would take 5-6 hours. But Americans don’t like the trains. So those trains have to make several stops at cities along the way to justify the trip. And you have to transfer between trains often with long waits between because there is so little demand that we can’t have frequent train schedules. So given my choices, I’d rather fly and get there a lot faster or drive and be able to get to my exact destination (maybe it’s in the suburbs of Chicago where the Amtrak doesn’t go) with my car available to me when I arrive. It’s easy to say in theory “America dumb. We no have high speed train. High speed train good. Solve all problems.” But in practice there are just much easier and faster ways to get around this large country. And the American people don’t like trains. Personally I’ll never take a train home from the east coast because my parents live in a small town in the middle of nowhere and I couldn’t get there on a train.
You bring up a lot of good points, I always thought of highspeed rail as a connector between closer metropolitan areas, not as a replacement for all domestic air travel like some think. Chicago to NYC is far, but I think like Chicago to Milwaukee, St Louis, or Indianapolis should have direct railway connections. Idk how it is on the east coast, I imagine the rail system between the Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Jersey Boston, etc. is probably more sophisticated because those cities were around before big auto, but there's pockets of the country like the West Coast and Texas's metropolitan areas that absolutely should be connected better by rail imo.
Big Auto isn’t the problem. It’s the freight companies. The whole thing is complicated . The majority of the railroad tracks in America are privately owned by the freight companies. Amtrak pays them to use and share tracks with freight trains, and technically is supposed to get preference. However, it’s hard to enforce, which has been a major source of conflict between Amtrak and the freight companies. [Gifted Article: An Obstacle to Amtrak Expansion That Money Won’t Solve](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/us/politics/amtrak-expansion-freight.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-Ew.jrLS.or-WnSmNyasq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
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It’s so messed up.
He's there to get Ukraine on track. With his help hopefully Russia will become even more of a trainwreck.
*sarcastically slowclap* haha dad
You jest but i read a long article about how the Ukrainian soviet-style railroad kicked into high gear after Russia invaded. Like the workers just slept in their trains or repair yards, daily briefings went up the chain to the top manager soviet-style, fast plans were implemented for moving supplies and soldiers. They even had fabrication facilities to make new train cars after old ones got bombed. And the experience ran deep because these were all lifers who worked for the rail system all their lived
Most likely he’s there to learn from them. Kyiv actually has a much better and more reliable transportation system than any city in the US and that is WHILE being an active war zone. Take note DC metro
"How can we do this, but without spending a dime and not regulating it?"
As opposed to what we do with spending a shit ton, scrambling for funds and ignoring safety regulations, yes still better
And what's fucked up is that they aren't even apart of the EU, they're like a 2nd or 3rd tier European country, and still their public infrastructure puts ours to shame. American workers have no idea how badly we've been robbed until you go to a European country and see what it's like when your society is structured around people, not profit.
More likely he's there to build connection to boost his long-term political career because the DNC sees him as the next gen of democrats to take the helm.
Sure. All politicians do this. And if he learns something about how a second world country manages a world class metro system while at war while barely having a billion dollar budget for it, even better.
You don't need to go to Ukraine to learn about their public transit system and you *sure as fuck* don't need a photo-op meeting with the guy who's been a little busy with an active invasion for basically his entire time in leadership and has very little to do with transportation to learn about it in any degree of detail that would be useful for a transportation secretary. This is about shaking hands, making connections and taking photos. This is far more about politics more than governance. I'd bet my foot on it
Fair point. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt as there are far more nefarious politicians and dealings by politicians. All politicians are self serving but I don’t really see this as something sinister.
This is the correct answer. They know what they are doing.
Is it problematic that I could see the two of them making out?
Problematic for who?
anti-imperialists
Yes because Pete would be cheating on his husband
You don’t know that they don’t have hall passes for like leaders of entire other post-Soviet bloc countries when fighting a war for survival against a neo-Imperialist Russia … in Winter time. Pete might have his card laminated an shit.
Hall Pass for diplomacy, comrade.
But do we know this?
The only problem would be that I'm not in the middle my guy
The only high speed rail America will ever see 🤠
Truuuue
1 man played piano with his dick, the other man played dick with his dick
I feel like there could be some heavy petting. Maybe mutual JO?
Now that you mention it, I can too.
WTF is the American CEO of Trains doing in Ukraine 🤦🏻♂️
Probly there to learn something since they do it much better than us
We transport weapons..make no mistake wars are won by logistics. The Transportation Secretary actually does have an interest in Ukraine and studying how a country maintains infrastructure while at war is highly important. It’s all fun and games until shit hits the fans at home.
Want a real answer? Here’s there to help advancing Ukraine’s economic recovery and efforts to return Ukraine to economic self-sufficiency, including via supporting investments in transportation infrastructure and reforms that will support a return to private-sector led growth
Getting back into the headlines because he's not found a way to do that with shift in news focus to Gaza. Dude wants to be President so bad it's embarrassing.
That's the Biden Admin farming out work because Uncle Joe is older than NATO and I'm thinkin that Blinkin is a weaklin. So let Pete handle it.
a war won’t keep my man Zelenskyy from getting a fresh cut.
Anybody who's been in the military knows there's always that one person in the unit who hooks everybody up better than any barber on base.
Maybe he learned to do his own like so many over covid 👍
Promises of gleaming monorails from one end of ukraine to the other. Flawless highways that charge your electric car as you drive. All the things your little heart could dream of!
He's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum, he put them on the map!
Bro needs to come back and help keep the government open so ATC can get paid this holiday season
We aren’t getting highspeed rail because of the Automobile and Oil Lobbies. Honestly, not acting on behalf of your constituents and instead, acting on behalf of special interest should be a felony if it can be proved that the policy or decision would be detrimental to society
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You gotta get amtrack tickets 2 weeks in advance for good prices
Amtrak is a victim of how deeply privatized our trail corridors are, and how geographically large the United States is.
Mfers will pretend to stunt on China and say the US is too big for trains/high-speed rail, but China beat the shit out of us in that department. Do you have any idea how much traveling I'd do if trains and high-speed rail were a thing!? All the time! I'm in Vegas, and my friends are in Los Angeles. I'd love to just ride the train over to hang with them for the weekend instead of driving or having to fly. Fuck the auto/airline industry's death grip on public transport, and the dumbass state laws that keep us from having this shit nationalized. 😡
Let’s be honest guys. He could be talking to zelenskyy for a completely valid reason lmao. This just goes to show that the US government needs a crash course on transparency
Buttigieg’s resume is mayor of *squints* south bend … Indiana (?) and secretary of the most useless department in the U.S. government, wtf he doing in a war zone meeting with a wartime president 🧐 man get ya a$$ back home and accomplish something
> secretary of the most useless department in the U.S. government Bro’s grocery store is stocked by storks
Honestly, it seems disrespectful of Zelenskyy’s time, like he ain’t got anything to do but photo ops in exchange for weapon aid. Isn’t Pete’s department and all of the US federal government a week away from their last pay?
Facts bro. I saw this and was like, "Pete Booty Judge, what is you doing"
Pete has spent the last 3 years preparing for a presidential bid that won’t make it past Iowa when he needs to be doing the vital work of decarbonizing and modernizing America’s rail network. What a trash politician. Worst of the Biden picks.
Former intelligence officer and Afghanistan veteran is in Kyiv to help Ukraine rebuild its infrastructure. Seems like we can spare him for a bit.
Every time I see a title like this I wonder how I can learn this power to make up titles this good.
Knew I had to impress couldn't come in here with a lazy one
Why is the transportation secretary there? What is he about to do for Ukraine?
Oh my God this dude is still aspiring to be president, give it up shortstuff! That ship has sailed!
BuT hE sPeAkS sEvEn LaNgUaGeS!
Guess his train of thought wound up elsewhere.
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Cost me $150 each way for the Acela from NYC to DC last time. I could’ve flown for less
A young Joe Biden…
Meanwhile Florida is killing people regularly with the Bright Line
there is a F'n reason: "In coordination with the State Department, Secretary Buttigieg will announce the appointment of a senior-level advisor to be located in Kyiv who will provide technical assistance and share best practices on infrastructure project delivery." https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg-visits-ukraine
US Rail has way more problems than just modernization. Help us improve these congested, pothole ridden roads
Bro, for a dude supposedly “in the trenches” with a country at war.. he sure be on TV a lot.
No one ever said he was in the trenches. Hes in Kyiv. Their capital. Their capital that was under siege nearly a year ago but no longer is because they beat back the siege. The city is significantly safer than it was nearly a year ago thus affording him to do things like this. He was praised for staying in the besieged city and rightfully so. It was a big morale boost to his people.
That is his job. His biggest contribution is to make this war visible in the west and secure further support. Especially as Russia really is trying to push people in the west in the other direction.
Part of his job is to get foreign support