Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies. I don’t understand how they think that cars or this stupidloop is better than high speed rail. Traveling by train is far more relaxing, way less infuriating and leaves time for you to do something else meaningful. US is probably the only country that went back on rail transport. Every other country is taking it as far as they possibly can.
Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies.
Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.
And Australia. Frankly the whole anglosphere. Large parts of Asia, too. Vietnam’s public transport is abysmal, and as the country imports more and more cars (over the motorbikes the country has historically been famous for) traffic is becoming absolutely insane.
Saigon has been building a metro since 2013 and still doesn’t have even a single line in operation. (That’s in no small part thanks to high levels of governmental corruption, rather than the same kind of car dependency in the west, but it comes down to a similar thing: money.)
Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.
Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies. I don’t understand how they think that cars or this stupidloop is better than high speed rail. Traveling by train is far more relaxing, way less infuriating and leaves time for you to do something else meaningful. US is probably the only country that went back on rail transport. Every other country is taking it as far as they possibly can.
Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.
This is Canada erasure.
And Australia. Frankly the whole anglosphere. Large parts of Asia, too. Vietnam’s public transport is abysmal, and as the country imports more and more cars (over the motorbikes the country has historically been famous for) traffic is becoming absolutely insane.
Saigon has been building a metro since 2013 and still doesn’t have even a single line in operation. (That’s in no small part thanks to high levels of governmental corruption, rather than the same kind of car dependency in the west, but it comes down to a similar thing: money.)
I walk an extra half hour so I can take the train instead of the bus for my morning commute. It’s worth it.
If there still isn’t any high-speed rail I wouldn’t say it failed…
I assume by “fail” you mean “didn’t succeed in preventing California from building an efficient high-speed rail system”, right?
It kind of did though. California HSR isn’t doing very hot in the court of public opinion last time I heard about it
Exactly. The good kind of failure.