re: China's bullet train that could go from NY to Chicago in 4.5 hours shows how behind US is

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It’s really because passenger rail doesn’t make money anywhere.

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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!