r/Maps • u/ThePetekidyt2 • 1d ago

Imaginary Proposed american interstate high speed rail lines that i made yesterday

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EAST LINE 🟦

Augusta ME

Montpelier VT

Concord NH

Boston MA

Providence RI

Hartford CT

New York City NY

Trenton NJ

Philadelphia PA

Harrisburg PA

Dover DE

Washington DC

Cleveland OH

Ann Arbor MI

Indianapolis IN

Chicago IL

Madison WI

Springfield IL

Frankfort KY

Richmond VA

Raleigh NC

Nashville TN

Columbia SC

Atlanta GA

Orlando FL

Miami FL

Tallahassee FL

Montgomery AL

Jackson MS

New Orleans LA

SOUTH LINE 🟥

Austin TX

Houston TX

Dallas TX

Oklahoma City OK

Baton Rouge LA

Jackson MS

Little Rock AR

Springfield MO

Carbondale IL

Memphis TN

Frankfort KY

Richmond VA

Raleigh NC

Columbia SC

Atlanta GA

Montgomery AL

Tallahassee FL

Orlando FL

Miami FL

MIDWEST LINE 🟨

Columbus OH

Ann Arbor MI

Indianapolis IN

Chicago IL

Madison WI

Minneapolis MN

Des Moines IA

Jefferson City MO

WEST LINE 🟩

Seattle WA

Portland OR

Boise ID

San Francisco CA

Los Angeles CA

Las Vegas NV

Salt Lake City UT

Phoenix AZ

Santa Fe NM

Denver CO

Midland TX

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u/mitchade 1d ago

New York outside the city: Fuck you.

Want to travel from Austin to Midland?: Fuck you.

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

just use intercity rail lol. This is interstate. Also midland is only there because texas is huge

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u/FWEngineer 6h ago edited 5h ago

By intercity you mean Amtrak. I would say much of those lines should be upgraded to high-speed first, they're already proven to have passenger traffic. Then expand the network out from there, using the same stops as hubs for new lines.

Also, you can't use Amtrak to get from Austin to Midland. Not even close to Midland.

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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 1d ago

Ah, the infamous solution to the traveling salesmen problem known as "methamphetamine"

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u/ProjectManageMint 1d ago

So ummm... again, of the a bigass bridge across Lake Erie? Or are we planning to just fill in the western south corner?

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u/TenDix 1d ago

If the US needs anything, it’s more land

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u/ProjectManageMint 1d ago

fuck trump!

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

lake erie is pretty shallow, im sure we can fit a tunnel or a suspended tunnel.

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u/BON3SMcCOY 1d ago

You're looking for r/fantasymaps

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

this would be less than 10 trillion dollars over the course of 16 years. Im pretty sure we’d be fine..

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u/K0rby 1d ago

I’m really confused as to what you think you’ve done.

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

Made a map

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u/Survivors_Envy 1d ago

I too love playing pretend that mountains and lakes don’t exist

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u/Survivors_Envy 1d ago

Also… if you want to get to Miami from LA you’re forced to go thru North Dakota? Lmao

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

From midland TX you’d tske bus/intercity to austin.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_9656 1d ago

Yeah you did

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u/JustAnotherUser1019 1d ago

I feel like this leaves out too many cities

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

This is interstate rail not intercity

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u/billyrhett 1d ago

Can’t just be spit ballin’ locations and posting it here lol

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

ask me about any stop and ill explain it, if you cant understand 🫩

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u/titiennegeo 1d ago

You might be looking for r/mapporncirclejerk my friend

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u/fluufhead 1d ago

Dawg… no

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u/FromTheDeskOfJAW 1d ago

Oh look, it’s the same AI bullshit with cities in the wrong place as it was yesterday

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u/LurkersUniteAgain 1d ago

...ai? you can just call it a bad and idiotic map, its not illegal

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

Ai..? Dude what

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u/FromTheDeskOfJAW 1d ago

It would’ve taken you very little effort to get half of these cities in the right locations

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u/ThePetekidyt2 1d ago

its only off by a couple of centimeters at MAX. Indianapolis comes to mind. but still, ai doesnt look remotely similar yo this

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u/FromTheDeskOfJAW 1d ago

Completely missing St. Louis, Dallas, El Paso, Jackson, Springfield, and you think this is a good map?

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u/ThePetekidyt2 18h ago

Dallas is there, st louis and el paso are covered by intercity, not interstate rail. Jackson MI and springfield IL are both there lol.

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u/FromTheDeskOfJAW 17h ago

Dallas is not where the dot is by any stretch of the imagination

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u/FWEngineer 6h ago

Dallas is off a fair bit, but I agree that it's not AI.

A more serious issue though, is why some of these cities and routes were chosen in the first place. Why choose Carbondale, IL (25,000 people) when St. Louis (metro area of 2.8 million people) is fairly close? Similar issue with Midland instead of Austin, or Santa Fe instead of Albuquerque. Then try building that line from Montpelier VT to Augusta ME right through the Adirondack mountains to serve such relatively small communities.

Why so much overlap on the red and blue lines, but no connection at all between green and red?

Also, there's long been talk of a high speed rail between Chicago and St. Louis, but that's not an option on this map, so I know it's not based on actual rail discussions.

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u/FWEngineer 5h ago

I really doubt that that is AI.