Looks at Japan, South Korea, Switzerland even to some extent Germany: You sure about that?
Let's be honest, transportation in America is a shitshow because EVERYTHING there is designed around the car. It's a country where people will drive across an area that most places in the world would be several countries and it wouldn't be that much of a big deal. That means people are less caring about public transport so it's easier to scim some of the funds meant to upgrade transportation to private slush funds.
The only places worse for public transport than the US is places like the UK where literal beaurocracy and extremely poor planning stops ANY improvement being met on time and in some cases to quality. I think they've given up on that HS2 line they've been waffling over for over a decade...
Yes, america is designed around cars, because you fucking need them. You can drive for 12 hours and still be in texas. Public transportation is shit unless your entire population is crammed in major cities and countries about the size of states.
Pretty much, it's MUCH too expensive and not worth it to build trains everywhere given the size of America. You're better off with trains focused on industrial use unless urban only and airports everywhere else.
And both of those are still secondary to cars and even trucks.
California, despite bragging about being the 5th largest economy in the world, can't get a fucking high-speed rail built without going grossly overbudget.
Meanwhile, Taiwan, a Chinese rump state on an island with minimal resources, managed to get one built.
The one US state where public transportation might make sense is also a South America-tier corrupt shithole.
Looks at Japan, South Korea, Switzerland even to some extent Germany: You sure about that?
Let's be honest, transportation in America is a shitshow because EVERYTHING there is designed around the car. It's a country where people will drive across an area that most places in the world would be several countries and it wouldn't be that much of a big deal. That means people are less caring about public transport so it's easier to scim some of the funds meant to upgrade transportation to private slush funds.
The only places worse for public transport than the US is places like the UK where literal beaurocracy and extremely poor planning stops ANY improvement being met on time and in some cases to quality. I think they've given up on that HS2 line they've been waffling over for over a decade...
This is one of the constant copes.
Yes, america is designed around cars, because you fucking need them. You can drive for 12 hours and still be in texas. Public transportation is shit unless your entire population is crammed in major cities and countries about the size of states.
Pretty much, it's MUCH too expensive and not worth it to build trains everywhere given the size of America. You're better off with trains focused on industrial use unless urban only and airports everywhere else.
And both of those are still secondary to cars and even trucks.
California, despite bragging about being the 5th largest economy in the world, can't get a fucking high-speed rail built without going grossly overbudget.
Meanwhile, Taiwan, a Chinese rump state on an island with minimal resources, managed to get one built.
The one US state where public transportation might make sense is also a South America-tier corrupt shithole.
Going on California public transit as a white man is basically suicide.