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Re:The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail by DataWorker on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:59AM (#21723649)
Correct! The numbers are clear not enough people use rail to make it viable and the are numerous examples of the same experiment: dump a few billion into public transport because “if you build it, riders will come”. They don’t. It’s the opposite of green or progressive, it takes tax funds from poor people and gives it to engineering firms to build vanity projects that nobody uses.
Re:The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail by claudeganon on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:16PM (#21723832)
The only comparable example to rail networks are rail networks in other wealthy countries, which are great, heavily used systems (barring maybe the UK, where conservatives intentionally sabotaged the system through a badly-implemented privatization scheme).