The US barely has any rail network. We should have built high speed cross country trains by this point. But lobbyists.
We don’t even have reliable power in large parts of the US. Not sure we’ll be getting eletricified train infrastructure anytime in our lifetimes.
@Ptsf @Beaver Compared to India? Which parts of the USA ration which hours/days each region of a city gets power?
When I was in a random restaurant in some Indian town the drinks we ordered took an insane amount of time to be prepared. We realised that was because an employee had to ride a bike to somewhere that had power to make our drinks and ride them back to us.
The US is a bastion of peak reliability compared to India.
I did not compare it to India. I was using reliable power (which far and significantly more Americans care about than reliable public transport) as an analog for an example of our priorities. Since we clearly care about reliable power and cannot get it right, the likelihood in my mind that we’ll fix public transport in our lifetimes is next to zero without serious cultural and governmental change. Also, India is not comparable to America without looking at a brevity of complex factors like population size, density, and wealth. It’d be wise not to genuinely compare the two on any singular issue as you’ll set yourself up for multiple substantive arguments regardless your position. IE: if you’re looking through a 2 billion person sized lens, you’ll be able to find examples to support most viewpoints. Additionally your anecdotal evidence for the US being a bastion of reliability disregards the impoverished areas of the US that do not meet your preconceived notions.
👌 not sure why you’re subscribing me to certain things or trying to argue. I like public transport, I’m just being realistic. One worker bee doesn’t control the hive.
