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re: China's bullet train that could go from NY to Chicago in 4.5 hours shows how behind US is
Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:53 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:53 pm to Bench McElroy
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Experts have said that the reason for the lack of investment in the US in high-speed rail is its large land size and the relative distance between major cities.
It’s really because passenger rail doesn’t make money anywhere.
Even the NY subway system with its enormous ridership loses money after debt service on the construction bonds is taken into account.
Those trains in China he’s jizzing himself over are being built and run at a big loss by the government (or heavily government-backed companies). If we wanted to burn money just to say we had fast trains, we could. It’s not as if they’ve made some technological achievement; it’s just that their government decided that that’s what they want to subsidize.
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 9:57 pm
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Posted on 5/12/18 at 8:09 am to Cooter Davenport
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It’s really because passenger rail doesn’t make money anywhere.
It probably does on pure operations in very dense places like the NE corridor of the U.S., dense urban areas like Chicago, Los Angeles, but once you get really spread out and not all that dense (think Southern cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston), it's cheaper in all those places to just buy all the light rail riders a Toyota Prius than to build the light rail in the first place.
America is largely a company of free people who get around in automobiles they own, not slaves who are herded onto train cars.
'Merica. frick yeah!
Posted on 5/12/18 at 9:09 am to Cooter Davenport
I’ve traveled across France and much of the rest of Europe by high speed rail. It’s a great way to travel.
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