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None. Why would you think that? My guess is you're an American living nowhere near an urban rail system but I thought most people here would at least be passing
by soiltype 5mo ago
None. Why would you think that? My guess is you're an American living nowhere near an urban rail system but I thought most people here would at least be passing familiar with modern trains. Even some American cities have them.
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoWhy the ad hominem? I've lived and travelled in a ton of places. Trains in low density cities are simply not working well enough. I now prefer to live in exurb and drive everywhere. It's so good.
- soiltype 5mo agoGuessing you're American is ad hominem?
- 0xffff2 5mo ago> ad hominem: appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect [0] Pretty much by definition, yes. 0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ad%20hominem https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ad%20hominem
- soiltype 5mo agoI mean I wasn't making any rhetorical argument. That part of the comment was just me musing.
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoMuse this - train is a tool, just like a car, bus, bike, plane, drone or rollerblades. Repeating "trains" in every transport context is unproductive. Each mode of transport requires certain density. Most US cities just don't have it. It's that simple.
- soiltype 5mo agoNo
- Schiendelman 5mo agoIt's not at all that simple. One of the neat things about trains is their permanence - once you've built one, you can fight for allowing increased density repeatedly until you win. That's what we've been doing in Seattle!
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoHorses before train carriages then? How is that working out tho?
- floxy 5mo ago>modern trains. Even some American cities have them. Which American cities have notable modern train systems? Not Portland, or NYC, or Washington DC.
- Schiendelman 5mo agoIt's hard to say "system", but Seattle's just opened our second line, and we've got a couple in design as well.
- soiltype 5mo agoWhat do you mean by notable?
- floxy 5mo agoOnly that they are worthy of noting. If there is a modern system, but it happens to suck for some reason, you don't have to mention that one. So feel free to strike that "notable". Which American cities have modern train systems?
- soiltype 5mo agoOk, that's an unusual definition of notable.
- floxy 5mo agonotable adjective no· ta· ble ˈnō-tə-bəl for sense 2 also 1 a : worthy of note : remarkable | a *notable* improvement https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/notable https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/notable
- soiltype 5mo agoI misread that you were retracting "notable" and replacing it. I thought you were adding "it can't suck for any reason" to your definition.