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I don’t get how trains help everyone. By their very nature, they draw lines blessing certain areas with infrastructure, blessing certain cities, while bypassing
by thehappypm 5y ago
I don’t get how trains help everyone. By their very nature, they draw lines blessing certain areas with infrastructure, blessing certain cities, while bypassing others. It must be hard for smaller cities in Europe to get much traction when the big cities all have fancy rail. In the US? Even small, super remote places (Aspen, Steamboat, Bar Harbor, Bozeman, Spokane, Jackson Home) have airports and that makes them equally connected to the country as anywhere else.
- jltsiren 5y agoEurope is more densely populated than the US. Small cities are rarely far from major cities, and they are usually connected by regional rail. Small remote cities don't really exist in areas where rail traffic makes sense.
- thehappypm 5y agoThat’s a very Western / Central European bias. In fact it probably is a big reason why there’s such a major east/west split that persists today, the rich countries keep building themselves more and more of this type of luxury infra.