We could've been a country with high speed rail
high speed rail is still 3x slower than a jet plane
>>546181251You still could be. With petrol heading for $10/gallon you'll soon appreciate the beauty of trains. Invented by the Brits of course.
>>546181366it's a problem we'll never be able to solve if we don't dip our toes in the water first
>>546182113asian verbal iq cringe
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>>546181251Yeah we should get some zeppelins and sailboats too.
Why would we build rail when we already have a ton of airports and a huge highway network? With widely available self driving right around the corner, it would be a straight downgrade.
>>546181251>made in CHYNAYeah hard pass for me dawg
>>546181251The last time I boarded a Greyhound bus, I had to move all the way to the front because there was pool of nigger piss in the back that stunk to high heaven. What exactly do you think is going to happen when we build high speed rail in America?
>>546184071Why do you need to fly when you can just walk?
>>546181251Is that why spanish trains keep crashing
>>546184338nah, that's just sabotage or have you not been watching the news?
>>546184071Freight. Also, better experience on a train than long distance driving. Air travel is cucked to hell. Roads are jammed up by jeet trucks Trains is hard job.
china only does trains because they can't into cars
>>546184071More importantly, where would we put it when pretty much all of the good routes already have critical logistics infrastructure on them and you can't run high speed passenger service and heavy freight on the same tracks?
>costs as much as a plane ticket>takes longer than a plane to get where you need to gono thanks
>>546188119Try train travel. You will not be as humiliated by negro security puppets. Also, you can smoke.
>>546184338why are you comparing american/chinese innovation to Spanish monkeys
>>546189063Americans just don't appreciate slow luxury.
>>546181251Don't worry too much. Thanks to european union push for privatization of rail, a natural monopoly combined with profit driven and extractive ideology, what was once viewed and loved as a functioning and highly beneficial public infrastructure has turned into an absurdly expensive and unreliable experience that everyone despise. Those faggots yapping about ecology all day long managed to push every sane person into flying despite having dense and well maintained high speed rail network
>>546181251>Bug people choose bug transportBig shock
>high speed rail>20 stops in betweenI literally took the train today and it took me almost 2 hours to get somewhere that would take me an hour to just drive. Only reason why I do it is because driving costs gas plus 60 dollars in tolls one way. High speed rail is gay.
>>546189622dunno, high speed train in europe only stop to major cities most of the time. you then hop onto the regional network to join smaller town
>>546181366You have to take a taxi to the airport 2 hours before your flight so you can go through the tiresome process of air travel. HSR is cheap too, it's like $5 per 100km.
Why are Americans so incompetent in laying rail roads? It' literally a hundred year old ancient technology. There's nothing serious about it.
>>546181251Nobody wants to ride a train for hours or days especially if it's full of subhumans. The only reason I hate that spirit Air was shut down is that was basically the back of the bus airline and I would never have to fly with them so long as it was still in business.
>>546190355very few incentives to do it combined with a very powerful and influential automotive industry
>>546190378It's quiet, comfortable, fast to board and it drops you near town center. It is often the superior mode of transportation in a lot of cases.It's not a train problem, it's a subhuman problem
