According to this border crossing-related deaths have gone down
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/06/us-mexico-border-deaths-lower-under-trump-than-obama-data-shows/
I'm from El Paso and people have been dying crossing the Rio Grande (even before crossing and dying in the AZ desert became a thing) for the entirety of my life and I've never seen anybody really give a shit about it. If it takes Trump to create enough outrage for this issue to finally be addressed then I suppose that's a good thing
You seem to be advocating installing HSR in existing highway ROW (on I-10 and the Jersey turnpike), and I don't think that would work, or at least as simply as you make it sound. Not an engineer but it seems to me that HSR has much stricter grade and turn requirements than freeways.
I doubt even freight rail could follow I-10 ROW for those reasons.
Maybe not
siap, but haven't seen this posted. This guy's vid / analysis of the sugar bowl is posted elsewhere, here he looks at a few offensive plays from the LSU spring game:
Buddy of mine owns a cement company and they switched to "super 16s" to haul material years ago, and he claimed the main benefit was the avg. driver (of his, anyway) was always and forever finding new ways to run over shit with fifth wheel dump trailers or simply jacknife them into the cab.
We were selling them (live) direct to a processor in the dfw area that was processing and exporting them. Unfortunately I no longer have their contact info. and Google isn't refreshing my memory