Thread 521145008

Why is American infrastructure over 100 years behind Europe and East Asia's?

>>521145008 (OP)
trains are for slow homosexuals. we don't have that many slow homosexuals outside of like nyc but yurop is full of slow homosexuals

>>521145008 (OP)
You know the answer

>>521145082
Trains are faster tho

>>521145008 (OP)
>damage controlling already
Lol get back to digging out your comrades from that collapsed bridge, chinksect.

>>521145341
trains take 4 to 20 times as long as driving. only third world subhumans use trains

Ask government

>>521145082
I used to drive all the way downtown for uni.
Parking was a chore and traffic made me suicidal.
I then switched to trains.
45 minutes and I would be home, instead of 2 hours.
Trains are superior: nothing stops them beside a train stop every now and then.
The only time I've seen a train stop longer than 2 minutes was because some cunt rammed her car into the side of a train.
Train barely had a scratch, the cunt died.

>>521145656
it's literally 4 to 20 times faster to drive in places like nyc than to take the train. trains are slow as fuck

>>521145008 (OP)
Diversity isn't a strength. Those (up until the last 20 years or so for Europe) were not diverse countries.
We have been paying billions to Israel and minorities for the past 60 years.
Any desire to utilize public transport goes down when the odds of a violent sub-Saharan slitting your throat for no reason is an ever present threat in the vast majority of U.S. cities. (Ironically due to racist policies excluding Blacks from moving to Oregon, Portland is an exception LOL.)

>>521145656
It's a grass is greener thing. I lived in Tokyo and after the 3rd station change, and the train being delayed I would fantasize about just being able to drive to my destination. I think cars make a lot of sense in the spread-out North American context. Trains are cool too, but as my last post denotes -- fall apart in the presence of a dysgenic policies flooding cities with fatherless criminals who for whatever reason think random murder is acceptable behavior.

>>521145082
>it's gay
can you come up with a better argument you fucking retard?
>slow
faster than any car

when America was nearly 100% white, all cities were connected by train and the cities were walkable.

>>521145656
>I used to travel on my own time but now, since daddy govt has taken over my scheduling, I feel so much better and less stressed out!
Kek, suicidal from having to park. Must be those chink genes.

>>521145008 (OP)
We aren't a total ubranized soulless shithole.

>EU - all tracks
>China - all tracks built and future planned
>US - tracks from the smallest railroad company
picrel all tracks in US

>>521145008 (OP)
So that a few industries can profit. Sure we could have high speed rail, but then why would you fly? Sure we could have good public transportation, but then why would you buy a car? Almost every problem in this fucked up country can be traced back to the need for profit. Sad thing is it can't even be all Jews. It's gentiles that act like Jews running their hands over their profits.

>>521146523
Here are Chinese rail laid over US map for comparison

>>521146362
>We aren't a total ubranized soulless shithole.

>>521145008 (OP)
jews

total rail laid by nation

>>521145008 (OP)
Post the cargo rail system.

>>521145008 (OP)
Europeans and Chinese can not fathom how far behind they are in infrastructure development in comparison with the United States

>>521146260
it's gay you retard and trains are way slower than driving. that's why no one takes the train

>>521145424
That just exposes how shitty american trains are lol

>>521147813
youre gay and trains are faster unless you have retarded American infrastructure.

>>521147984
it exposes how shitty yuro cars are

>>521148781
you're a gay retard and driving is faster unless you have shitty third world canadian cars

>>521145008 (OP)
Public transport can only be relevant when you have a homogenous society.

>>521145341
high speed trains are still slower than jets
China - 130-150 people per sq km (depending on which estimate you use, official numbers are almost certainly fake)
EU - 110 people per sq km
USA 36 people per sq km
Rail, no matter how fast it is, is fundamentally obsolete technology. Even the fastest trains are slower than air travel and once you account for intermodality, also slower than driving. I have no idea why retarded goyboys are obsessed with them. My state has spent billions on light rail and the only good thing is you don't have to find parking during sports events.

>>521146541
LOL this is such a fucking cope. imagine actually thinking a high end rail system would actually displace driving. Look at the numbers in Europe and realize that the only reason Europeans don't drive as much as the US is they're poorer.

>>521145008 (OP)
the automobile industry was a big part of the american economy a few decades ago so making trains would've hurt it

also oil barons

>>521145082

Link Light Rail is actually pretty awesome in Seattle area, should have gone more to the north past Lynwood to Mukilteo so you could board the ferry in Clinton and commute car-less to the center of the city.

t. knower of America and their hidden inferiority

>>521145424
lel not sure if trolling or just americunt :D you know that a lot of our trains go 100+ mph? please tell me you knew that

>>521145008 (OP)
you post this thread every few days

take a look at this world railway map:
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/
try educating yourself on what the population density of the western united states is and see how UNECONOMICAL it would be to run train service in these western states. Trains are used quite heavily for moving freight. The US probably runs

>>521145008 (OP)
OP is an idiot, the US moves MUCH MORE TONNAGE of freight on trains than europe

>>521149729
Trains are convenient because you can get on a train at 9pm, sleep, and wake up at your destination the next day. It used to be like that in Canada in the 70s but our infrastructure is fucked now too.

>>521154812
ofc you move more TONNAGE because you are all fat as fuck xD

>>521146581
>Canadian once again trying to use a picture of a commercial zone in the middle of a massive interstate that gets more people going through than his mother's bedroom to attack Americans
I'll admit that number was close though.

>>521145008 (OP)
I took the Pacific Chief, the train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Got off at the stop before Albuquerque, but it's right after going thru a mountain pass. Train was literally going about 20 mph around the tight turns, where if you fall off things could be quite bad. Power poles out there still have wires attached and presumably still working, but old fashioned glass insulators (varying colors so quite colorful and scenic) and falling down, so the wires are stretched in many places. It's the kind of place that doesn't change in 1000 years. In Switzerland they'd just blast out a tunnel under the mountain.
Quite a few Amish on that train. It seems they approve of trains but not of airplanes, even though that train surely had a diesel engine not an old timey steam engine. They stay before 1900 tech I guess.
It was very nice, lots of scenic views. Protip: bring all your food for the trip onboard with you. There's never an opport unity at a stop to get off, get a proper meal even to go and get back on, and they try to sell their overpriced dining car meals. You can bring vast amounts of luggage for free.

>>521154812
Our tracks are primarily for freight (except the mountain pass I went thru, presumably) and passenger trains use the same tracks. In Europe it's narrower gauge and for high speed passenger service, and maybe the freight runs on different tracks or I don't know what they do.

>>521155346
Oh, that's because our climate allows food to grow, what a concept.

>>521145008 (OP)
US have a low population density and the few high density centres are far enough away from each other that plane is better. Paris-London-Amsterdam by train is superior to planes and the opposite for NY-Chicongo-LA.

>>521146523
>>521146577
No one cares for freight trains, people want passenger trains and walkable cities

>>521146581
Another picture of either Breezewood or Bedford exit from Pennsylvania Turnpike. Scenic mountainous country, but that spot is a pitstop on the turnpike.

Kek. China already has nicer public transit than europe. That's how fast multiculturalism ruins a society. It's like flipping a switch.

>>521156239
You can have the 15 minute cities, I don't mind maintaining a car and using it, so I don't have to go to the single pizzeria in my walkable city.

>>521145008 (OP)
Because we have cars.

>>521156378
Also China's is brand new. Try 30 years ago, it was like the 1940's, literally the same stuff but rundown from being ancient.

>>521146260
This is true. All old East Coast towns have antique railway stations from before WW2 when people actually used rail. Most of these stations have been shut down and rail is just used for freight now. Exurbs actively block attempts to create public transport lines (including bus routes) to city centers because that results in drug addicted niggermonkeys having access to the exurbs.

>>521145008 (OP)
Because you're comparing European countries that are the size of New Jersey, to the entirety of America. Don't sweat though, Glocktavius, you're American, no one expects you to be able to understand a map.

>>521156239
Even chinks want airplane for passenger travel, but they are too poor to afford them.

>>521156635
This is true. I moved to my town because it is off the commuter train line. I gladly drive the extra distance for the peaceful environment. Nothing ever happens here, just as I like it.

>>521145008 (OP)
nice try kike, we absolutely mog both the EU and china combined in miles of laid track
>As of 2024, China has over 162,000 km (101,000 mi) of total rail track, making it the second-largest rail network in the world. The country's high-speed rail (HSR) network is the world's largest, with over 48,000 km (30,000 mi) as of 2024, and is rapidly expanding.
>European Union (EU): The EU railway network was about 200,947 km (about 124,864 miles) in 2023, a slight decrease from 2013.

>>521153931
It's going to, but also keep in mind the entire system will cost ~$150 billion before it's all said and done. Inflation adjusted the ENTIRE US interstate system has only cost ~$650 billion since 1955. And this is for a system that moves ~115,000 people per day compared to ~300,000 vehicles on I-5 in Seattle (~500,000 total people moved)
The only real advantage of rail is it uses less energy per passenger mile than a bus. But that's a tradeoff for network flexibility and scalability. That lack of flexibility and scalability is what makes rail much more dependent on population density for passenger service to be economically viable.

It also boggles my mind that people act like the auto-mafia is keeping MUH POOR TRAINS MEN down. Do you people even know the shit rail companies pulled up until they had serious competition from the highway system and air travel?

>>521156759
That's the story of everyone who keeps spamming the same shit about trains in the USA, they're too poor for airline travel or to own a car, so they bitch about the people who have the money for both. Train travel was common in the USA until cars took off, and people wanted them. Sorry to anyone who lives in a poor country and/or had their government make cars ridiculously expensive through regulations.

>>521157083
lol even w/subsidies an amtrack from houston to denver costs 3x more than a southwest airlines flight, trains are slow and gay

>>521145008 (OP)
europe and asia had a head start, when timmy got to north america there were trees, rivers, mountains and savages. timmy had to make friends with savages, earn their trust. build forts to survive against the aggressive ones, make trade with the peaceful ones. eventually timmy felt safe enough to build railway with the invention of the 6 shot revolver and lever action rifles. timmy was top dog now, north america belong to timmy at that moment.

Trains should only be used for bulk goods
Nigga planes exist