• @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    3424 hours ago

    Wait, you guys have trains?

    Depending on whether the stars are right. Or whether you need to cross the tracks - there’s always one when you need to cross the tracks.

    • @MrVilliam@lemm.ee
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      2123 hours ago

      there’s always one when you need to cross the tracks.

      This, but you ever notice that it’s pretty much never passenger trains? This efficient mode of transportation is largely designed for and used by industry rather than for travel or commute. The exception is within big enough cities like DC and NYC to get from one side of the city to the other or anywhere between. Sure there are some trains that go between cities, but they’re largely unreliable because passenger cars yield to industrial freight, and so people are less inclined to opt for them over planes or cars, and so there are fewer trains available to go wherever you’re going in the window you’re trying to go. So you book a flight instead.

      I’d take a long train ride over a road trip any fucking day. I don’t understand anybody who would rather drive than chill and read a book or play games or watch movies or nap.

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        2323 hours ago

        This, but you ever notice that it’s pretty much never passenger trains? This efficient mode of transportation is largely designed for and used by industry rather than for travel or commute.

        Yet massive amounts of goods are shipped long-distance via truck anyway, clogging up highways and polluting far more per-ton and per-mile moved.

        Truly the worst of both worlds! USA! USA! USA!

      • @0ops@lemm.ee
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        216 hours ago

        Exactly, it’s not that the US doesn’t have trains, there are plenty. Lots of relatively small towns have rails going to or through them. The problem is that only a tiny fraction of them are passenger rail.