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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by xvilka on Sunday September 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#21040105)
Rail transport is convenient enough in Europe and many Asian countries. It is just US railways are broken, old and nobody invest into high speed trains. Even the richest state in US failed to build just one track, which was supposed to be the fastest in US, but a snail-slow compared to Japanese or Chinese railways.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:36AM (#21040484)
> It is just US railways are broken

No. Geography.

American population centres are disparate. Comparisons to Europe, with its tightly-packed industrial centres among centuries-old farms, are silly.

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