• @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    723 hours ago

    Although the US and Europe are nearly identical in area, Europe’s population centers are far more uniformly distributed. Big cities in America are mostly around the edges, with a vast, sparsely populated area in the middle. Most intercity train service in America is in that fringe, where the spacing between cities is more like in Europe.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      313 hours ago

      Sure, intercity will never work in the US. Except on both coasts. And upper Midwest. And in a couple mountain and high desert areas. Dammit, that’s like 70% of the population

      • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        True, but the post is about trains being on schedule (or showing up at all), not about speed. I wasn’t saying US trains service is as good as European.

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          213 hours ago

          Is this a “glass half full” thing? Can a non-existent train never be late or never be in time?

          • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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            24 hours ago

            No, it’s not a value judgement of any kind. Imagine that - just making an observation with no implications or underlying opinion to swipe left/right on. What a concept.

        • @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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          622 hours ago

          Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

          Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.

          • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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            24 hours ago

            100 years ago was also before the era of profit hyper-optimization, which it turns out de-optimizes every other aspect of a thing.