We made a decision during the Cold War that individual vehicles driven by one or a few people was a better way to move goods an population across our vast geography. Then we build a road systems with car dealers and mechanics and gas stations to accommodate that mode. Then when private railroads abandoned passenger service as less profitable we scooped or all up into a quasi-governmental organization that we mistakenly try to force to be profitable.
Meanwhile our European understudies rebuilt their destroyed continent to expand their rail network for both intercity travel and intra-city commuting. They iterated; they went fast. And they mostly do so in an environmental friendly way. Which is why their trains are mostly full. What they don’t do is demand profit margin to just keep it all running.
We could have been Europe. Now it would be a heavy lift which we seem to not want to do.
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We made a decision during the Cold War that individual vehicles driven by one or a few people was a better way to move goods an population across our vast geography. Then we build a road systems with car dealers and mechanics and gas stations to accommodate that mode. Then when private railroads abandoned passenger service as less profitable we scooped or all up into a quasi-governmental organization that we mistakenly try to force to be profitable.
Meanwhile our European understudies rebuilt their destroyed continent to expand their rail network for both intercity travel and intra-city commuting. They iterated; they went fast. And they mostly do so in an environmental friendly way. Which is why their trains are mostly full. What they don’t do is demand profit margin to just keep it all running.
We could have been Europe. Now it would be a heavy lift which we seem to not want to do.