• QualifiedKitten@discuss.online
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    12 hours ago

    As an American living in a region with halfway decent (by American standards) public transit, I feel like I hear more comments aligned with the European side than the American side. If public transit has literally any downsides, that’s justification enough to drive for so many people.

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      9 hours ago

      if public transit isn’t very good at eating me out, I need to buy a ford T1000 P!E!D!E!S!T!R!I!A!N!M!U!T!I!L!A!T!O!R! and roll coal.

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      12 hours ago

      Although the US and Europe are nearly identical in area, Europe’s population centers are far more uniformly distributed. Big cities in America are mostly around the edges, with a vast, sparsely populated area in the middle. Most intercity train service in America is in that fringe, where the spacing between cities is more like in Europe.

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        Sure, intercity will never work in the US. Except on both coasts. And upper Midwest. And in a couple mountain and high desert areas. Dammit, that’s like 70% of the population

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          11 hours ago

          True, but the post is about trains being on schedule (or showing up at all), not about speed. I wasn’t saying US trains service is as good as European.

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            Is this a “glass half full” thing? Can a non-existent train never be late or never be in time?

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            11 hours ago

            Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

            Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.