Bummer Difficult to get that many signatures. I believe the only one I know that got more than 100,000 signatures was the silly "Secede Texas from United States" petition.The minimum threshold for a response has been raised to 100,000 signatures.This means The White House now has to give an official response to this petition since it crossed the 25,000 threshold.
Blatantly ignorant petitions by Texan traitors are probably a large part of why they raised the minimum threshold in the first place. It may sound like an unreasonable number at first but we're only talking about something on the order of 0.03% of the national population here. That's still perfectly viable in my view.Bummer Difficult to get that many signatures. I believe the only one I know that got more than 100,000 signatures was the silly "Secede Texas from United States" petition.The minimum threshold for a response has been raised to 100,000 signatures.This means The White House now has to give an official response to this petition since it crossed the 25,000 threshold.
Why would you say that?We may never get such a good chance again.
Your point is well taken. Nevertheless, it would be a shame to let this opportunity pass without taking advantage of it.Why would you say that?We may never get such a good chance again.
Nearly every substantial advancement against ideological intransigence had been a long and involved process of slowly building consensus among otherwise disparate and disinterested parties. Seeing as how there is no limit on the number of times a pro-rail petition can be submitted I doubt this is our one and only chance to make any headway. On the plus side at least we're not trying to petition President Romney. That probably would be a lost cause.
Agreed. We could create a banner and add it to our signatures. Or even ask the admins if it could be added to the site as a public information service? Just brainstorming out loud here.Nevertheless, it would be a shame to let this opportunity pass without taking advantage of it.
Yes, those are good ideas. But we also need to speak up outside the confines of places like AU. I don't generally post train-related stuff other than here, but I think it's time to let my non-train-fan friends know how I feel about this issue. Which means being more overtly political in my daily life than I usually like to be.Agreed. We could create a banner and add it to our signatures. Or even ask the admins if it could be added to the site as a public information service? Just brainstorming out loud here.Nevertheless, it would be a shame to let this opportunity pass without taking advantage of it.
Indeed, yes. <looks for like button>It's not like you're suggesting they switch sides or anything. You're simply asking them to consider showing solidarity with your desire to see more passenger rail. While that may be political in today's society it's not an inherently controversial or partisan position. I think the best way to sell passenger rail to non-fans is to remind them that the more passenger rail options there are for folks like us the fewer cars they'll see on the road ahead of them and the more seats will be available for their next flight.
What to do with a dream that's too big for reality? Among many other things, you could map it. Such a representation could serve as an exhortation - This is the plan, get going! But if the gap between cartography and reality remains unbridged, the exhortation becomes a souvenir of the road not taken, the map of an alternate reality where the fork in the road was negotiated differently.
Strangely enough, public transport systems seem particularly susceptible to the sort of dreams that can only live on maps. ...
This...putative map of what a high-speed rail network across the United States could look like. It was created by Alfred Twu. Mr. Twu is not just a designer at MWA Architects, a Bay Area bureau, he also a bit of a train nerd.
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