> Shinkansen are very popular in Japan. I don't know how you could not call them a success story. The Shinkansen may have some popular (profitable) lines, but

> Shinkansen are very popular in Japan. I don't know how you could not call them a success story. The Shinkansen may have some popular (profitable) lines, but it took a long time for the service to shed the lines which were built for purely political reasons under JNR. The fascist approach to building rail lines relies on hiding the true cost of rail (across private land) in subsidies and loans which are structured out of successors and written off by the government.