>>509471611 (OP)
Because we neither want nor need one, unlike shitty third world countries that larp here as first

>>509471611 (OP)
Because we have airplanes. It's not the 19th century anymore.

car companies bought the US government sometime in the 1940s, and they diverted funding from railways to roads

>>509471765
That's the pinnacle of cope, dude.

>>509471841
You could have both and more if you didn't spend all your money on corrupt military contractors, pissrael and 900 military bases across the world.

>>509472083
>You could have both
that's not how the US works.

Indians are bringing their culture to Canada, nice.

It's worth pointing out... this was in Mexico.

https://www.trains.com/trn/woman-struck-killed-by-cpkc-steam-tour-train-in-mexico/

>>509472083
The military is what keeps the US economy from collapsing, it must always be top priority no way around it

>>509471611 (OP)
because trains is hard job

>>509471611 (OP)
Indian moment.

I lived out in the desert in california near rail lines. mexicans would monthly get killed wandering tracks drunk or leave cars or vans overheated bottomed out trying to drive over them where there's not even any roads and cause mayhem for the trains. Cleaved in half coyotes were a daily sight. Place was gross.

High speed trains would disintegrate everything and themselves and nearby houses atom-smashing into all the idiot obstacles in their way.

>>509471815
High speed trains are much better to travel, first there is no 2 hour long boarding tome, no big lines, you don't have to go to a remote part of the city to get to the airport, as the train station is in the city center, and vice versa, no extra fares for extra baggage, you can use internet on the way, get up and walk around.... It is simply vastly superior

>>509471611 (OP)
Because they're too poor. Random no-name Chinese cities are more developed that even the most important US cities. The only US city that actually feels like its in a 1st world country is NYC.
>>509473766
>first there is no 2 hour long boarding tome
Planes didn't have long boarding times until terrorism. Just wait until a terrorist blows up a train or something.

>>509471611 (OP)
is she ok?

>>509471611 (OP)
Why she do this

>>509471611 (OP)
High speed rail is an expensive waste of everyone's time.
I mean, we have one of the best rail systems on the planet, and it's still shit.
It's a total waste of public money. It has to be subsidised because nobody would pay the costs of it's upkeep.

>>509472387
Oh no

>>509474670
At least I can understand you having it because of the size of Germany.
We are building it and it's going to cost us at least £396m per mile of rail !!!

>>509471611 (OP)
we do. we built ours in the sky

>>509474530
It will be never be as much. There is no need to have a separate procedure to load large bags, you can just carry them. There won't be a need to refuel planes between rides. But the fact that high speed trains will leave you in the city center, close to all other modes of transportation or even your own destination beats airplanes by a lot. When traveling to other cities by airplane you will need to add at least another hour of transportation to get to the city center

>>509471611 (OP)
I have trains that come through my neighborhood all the time. I see them as pretty mundane things. What causes such fascination with a train that you are willing to ignore the danger to get a picture with it?

>>509471611 (OP)
Thst looks like Kazakstain to me

>>509471611 (OP)

>>509472083
Read about what Robert Moses did to NY

>>509471611 (OP)
High-speed rail wouldn't be useful here because we don't have the correct population density because we're all sprawled out because everyone is trying to get away from niggers.

Soes that answer your question?

>>509474530
very dumb third worlder thread.

later today i'll be driving 15 minutes to the beach. i don't want to carry a cooler into some bus or "go to the city center" to take a train.

it's a little something called freedom.

(we actually do have high-speed rail in the good areas. who would want to fund development for poor areas?)