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Some places have been trying to get high speed rail for decades - when I was in Florida in the 90s we even had it on a ballot and the public wanted it overwhelmingly. Then the politicians came back and said it's too costly. Connecting some places would have paid off the construction multiple times and helped the state economy. I can only assume that there's people invested in building and maintaining roads that have lobbyists to keep them the "preferred" transportation option.
I doubt it's the road builders; it's oil companies, and to a lesser extent car manufacturers
It's always oil companies, isn't it? If I get a time machine, I'm going back to the early Carboniferous period and introduce the missing bacteria that would have decayed plants and minimized fossil fuel buildup.
While you're there, probably best to find the first primate, and stomp on it.
That's the beautiful part, change the direction far back enough there may not be primates at all.
It is always the oil companies, yes. I'll give you ten bucks if you can find a societal problem that I can't trace back to oil companies. Not counting homophobia, that one is a conservative religious problem