Why are Asians able to build trains?
Why are Caucasians able to build trains?
Why are Americans UNable to build trains?

>>508861791 (OP)
man, eastern europe is pathetic

>>508861791 (OP)
>Why are Caucasians able to build trains?
your map literally proves otherwise

>>508862036
Poland could you sit this one out

canada is planning a high speed rail between toronto and quebec city with stops at peterborough, ottawa, and montreal. but it wont be operational until 2043

in 15 years china went from 0km of high speed rail to over 45,000k

in 18 years canada plans to build 1000km of high speed rail

pathetic. embarrassing

>>508861981
>>508862036
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>>508862358
how fucking low IQ do you have to be to engage with this thread every time you see it? as if you expect OP isnt being disingenuous and fishing for replies? youre why this board fucking sucks dick

>>508862537
trains is a hard job

>>508862537
youre right, this thread about high speed rail policy is sliding important threads about bbc and orange man

>>508861791 (OP)
China= high population density
Europe= high population density

US= not so much

what this means is that when land is cheaper you build out but when land is more expensive you build up. having sprawling cities means it's a car city and public transportation isn't a priority. having compact and/or vertical cities means they're going to be walkable and have better public transportation.


these threads are always retarded

>>508862657
>youre right, this slide thread is sliding other slide threads
thanks for making this board a complete fucking pig sty

>>508863217
I didn't know this was a common thread
sorry bud

>I didn't know this was a common thread
>sorry bud

>>508863587
But actually, why cant America build rail. The cities are dense enough and close enough to each other, particularity in the east

>>508861981
eastern europe trains might be shittier and older but the prices are chwap as fuck for train tickets and don't forget that their trains are more on time than ours

>>508863706
Because we're the United STATES of America.

I know it's hard to believe, especially with the bombastic president we have, but states don't play nicely with each other when it comes to footing the bill for things like trans-state railways.

It would have to be federalized and one can only imagine the level of kvetching that'll cause.

>>508863892
I can understand that (a lack cooperation making large projects hard).
But why don't most American cites have rail? Most commuting for city folk is from one point in the city to another. Rail could work in such cases(?)

>>508863055
US also has mountain ranges fucking everywhere, including deserts and other shitty terrain. Plus the country is so fucking big that filling every square inch of it with train tracks would take an eternity. I'd honestly rather just drive my car anyway, being in a train with a bunch of smelly degenerates isn't fun.

>>508865209
lmao you fucking retard, the US already has a very high railway density, the thing is just that it's not used for passenger services. How dumb are you to suggest that the US is
>so fucking big that filling every square inch of it with train tracks would take an eternity

you can argue that passenger trains don't make much sense, that upgrading to HSR is too expensive, that many areas are too low density, but saying you don't *have* railways shows how dumb you are.

>>508861791 (OP)
There's a combination of factors at work here and they should also apply to Canada.
1. The US put a lot into their highway systems post WW2 in order to improve the ability for the military to move their troops and armor to where needed in the event of an invasion.
2. The US was obsessed with trains while still colonizing the west, but nowadays they don't like having to pay laborers to load and unload truck or train cars more than once. This is why all the money is currently in port cities. They'd rather that the thralls all move to the coast than pay for loading shipping containers onto a train or truck.
3. The one reason that probably everyone jumped on was that the population does not want passenger trains because they'd become a haven for ghetto trash. It's not like they don't already have a problem with cities giving homeless people bus tickets to southern cities where they can spend the winter. Add to that, those evading the law, and you have what we have, an expensive Amtrak system that is too pricey for vagrants to want any part of.

>>508861791 (OP)
trains got powercrept by cars and airplanes. why cant eurotards grasp this?

>>508865907
because high speed rail goes like 200mph without getting caught in traffic
how fast is your car?

>>508865564
I meant filling it up with passenger rails on top of all the highways and commercial rails we already have. You're the retard that can't fucking read