• @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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.

    • @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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      63 days 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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        23 days 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.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      23 days 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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        23 days 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.