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Transportation Woes
So not only does France at large thrash the United States in terms of transportation options available, they also make it look much more enchanting. They, and many other European nations (Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, this is a dead horse I'm kicking) use this attractive lawn track to bring more greenery into the town or city these trains and trams traverse daily, which can do away with some of those unsightly elevated rails chewed away by rust and weather that crop up off the ground; not to mention it can provide opportunities for rapscallions to mow fun shapes and patterns into the tract, as pictured above. This certainly isn't a major issue in terms of nascent transportation planning, but this is demonstrative of that fact that other places around the world care more about widespread, nationwide integration for quick, reliable, and afforable transportation than these Disunited States. As excited as I am for the passed, proposed, and hoped-for future transportation plans drawn for San Francisco and California ( Transbay Terminal to become city-changing, major Union Stationesque hub of intermodal transport featuring at least seven transit providers, high speed Japan-style bullet trains from SF to SD just under 4 hours and for a bargain of $70), there's so much still to be done without even bothering to consider the worrying thought that some of this, as history here has proven, might not ever be accomplished with all the sadly expected political onanism that's bound to come in tow.
I yearn for a day when I don't have to contemplate eventually emigrating. Or I yearn for the day when I finally do emigrate; that way whenever my name appears in print they'll call me an exile or use that fancy, so-very Nabokovian "émigré."
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