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> The world’s largest rail system, period. I despise this way of arguing. Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. Such a crud
by Mawr 2y ago
> The world’s largest rail system, period.
I despise this way of arguing. Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. Such a crude metric is entirely insufficient to back up an argument about how great American railways supposedly are.
What's the ticket cost for the passengers compared to other countries? Average train delay? Cancellation rate? Speed? Death rate? The argument is not looking so hot anymore, right? Then stop it with the irrelevant statistics of rail track length.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever First by track and third by tonnage (after China and Russia).
- Dalewyn 2y ago>Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. It actually is. Japan's new maglev shinkansen line is stalling because they can't get land rights to lay rail through.[1] An even more blasphemous example is California's high speed rail project which never accomplishes anything, but I'm pretty sure that also suffers from a severe case of legalized money laundering. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shizuoka_Prefecture_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shiz...