Imagine needing a gimmick when to get all engagement worth getting, all you have to do is post correctly. Allow me to demonstrate. Ahem.
good hunting up there, but that's about it. not being connected to the rest of CONUS is a no go for me.
Wait till alberta is a state, then we annex the Yukon and northwest territories.
Isnt Brightline East in Florida looking to go bankrupt to pawn off debt?
"/pol/ is empty and all the cows are here!"
Sorta, what's likely going to happen is that their parent company will sell off some real estate assets to keep the company going which they've done before by selling a parking garage for $20 million. They delayed some payments to August I believe. The entire Brightline system, once accounting for the land value boost coming from the service, is actually profitable. It's why the Fortress Investment Group has kept the company going all these years despite costing them billions.
/Pol/ shifted so gradually into shit I didn't notice.
We should get B.C aswell, saving for a rump state around Vancouver and Kamloops.
They're already saying it's the Trump curse. I'm very happy to see New Yorkers lose tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to watch an L.
My understanding from people who have moved up there for jobs is that the place is flooded with migrants now. Idk I haven't seen it myself and it's hard for me to imagine Mexicans or jeets tolerating the mind numbingly shitty cold weather in most of the state, but Anchorage has enough nice days I could see some of them making their way there.
my understanding is that the cities are especially bad. I'm sure the rural areas are all right but the decent ones are still close to the city and the ones that aren't... well, its still a proper frontier up there. not a life for everyone.
They are still up 2 games to 1 in a best of 7 series, for all the whining.
WTF is this accounting logic? This isn't Japan, Brightline doesn't own any of the land around their stations. Various local governments in Florida own many of the stations and they invested several billion of taxpayer dollars to help build them. Orlando alone spent $680 million for their station though they got reimbursed by the feds for some of that. Miami spent $77 million on the Aventura station and Biden gave them a $34 million grant to offer a commuter pass. They're a quasi-government company in practice.
Brightline is operationally profitable. the revenue from ticket sales exceeds the outlays needed to run the trains. it's the debt from building the lines that is dragging them down. They'll go bankrupt, restructure and continue operating.
Their parent company owns the properties around the stations and they make money off it and do what they can to keep the company going because without it, abandoned stations like Miami Central would look pretty bad and ruin what they've got going real estate wise.
This is how I know you don't know what you're talking about, The current Brightline isn't HSR, it's regional rail.
Not really? This is like calling airlines quasi-government owned because the government spends money on airport terminals. A combination of public and private funds usually works best for transit projects since if this whole thing were up to Amtrak, they wouldn't have even bothered making it a proper service and it would've dragged out for another decade because they never spend money on anything outside the NEC.
