Why doesn't the US have a high speed rail system? I though the US was a first world country
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>>69276532
But they do have at least one.
Acela Express in the Northeast United States between Washington, D.C., and Boston via 14 intermediate stops.
We are in no position to judge others by their rail network
>>69276532
I wish North America had high speed rail. I'd love to live in the burbs and rapid-commute to work. I can't stand urban environments anymore, I feel like I'm surrounded by a fucking drum circle comprised of the scum of the Earth.
>>69276532
You realize that 3 of the 6 depicted trains are built in Germany.
>>69277219
Bring back the scottsman then you can judge whoever you want.
>>69276532
Because public transit is communist, buy our cars like a good goy, government is evil and cant do anything right :)
>>69277219
This.
Better is relative
In American culture shitty trains is a cherished national past time. It would be wrong to use Anglo standards to judge American culture
>>69276532
>Why doesn't the US have a high speed rail system?
because do you know how large the U.S. land mass is?
pic related is your train
>>69276532
Because Amtrak
>>69276532
Because we invented Airplanes and we don't rely on 19th century technology.
>>69277624
/thread
All of Europe is like the size of a state
>>69277360
When they have light rail to and from the city, nogs use it to go there and start robbing.
>>69276532
because large mass transit with cheap tickets fucks over the white man by bringing niggers to the burbs, countryside, and elsewhere.
>>69276532
>Why doesn't the US have a high speed rail system? I though the US was a first world country
Because Americans can afford cars AND gas at the same time.
>>69277793
Pay very close attention to your death trap.
>>69276532
Interstate highway system.
Because our trains are for freight cars and planes are for travel
>>69276532
Because the USA is almost bigger than your whole fucking continent
>>69276532
Because of American car culture. A car is a right of passage and signifies independence. Unlike the UK, our culture focuses on the individual rather than the collective.
Good question honestly
>>69276532
Taggart Transcontinental when?
>>69276532
because we're able to afford cars
>>69276532
Because it would need to span a continent and we all have cars and good highways already.
>>69276532
earthquakes + 100+mph train on an a non moving track can make for some nasty accidents
>>69276532
Because why take a fucking train, when you can fly?
>>69278073
>europe
>continent
pick one
>>69278076
More like the Jewish culture of piling teens with debt as soon as they hit 18
>>69276532
We own cars. Only poor people ride trains here.
Enjoy your socialist utopia.
>>69276532
Because we just fly
TRAINS ARE SUCH A BETTER EXPERIENCE
IT ONLY TAKES TWO DAYS TO GO FROM NEW YORK TO TEXAS INSTEAD OF HOURS ON A PLANE
THINK ABOUT THAT GREAT EXPERIENCE YOU ARE MISSING.
>>69276532
LIONEL STRONK
>>69278255
2 hour boarding procedures
>>69276532
From where to where?
I once used a mapping program that accounted for the distortions of the map projection to see how connected USA would be if it has THE EXACT SAME RAIL SYSTEM of Japan. You want to go from Chicago to Oklahoma City? What about St Louise to Dallas?
>>69276532
Because capable rail networks spread niggers. We are content to keep them in the city.
>>69277624
China has high speed rail dipshit
We don't have chinks anymore to build our new railroad.
Please return, China. We miss you.
>>69276532
Because Europe is so fucking small people walk the whole damn thing in a summer
>>69276532
While we're on the subject, why doesn't the UK have a high speed rail system?
With the tornadoes in the mid-west, the earthquakes out in California, and the shit snow conditions in the north, we'd have a pretty bad time also. It's probably way more profitable to carry cargo anyway.
>>69278200
nigga go to fucking chicago
>>69278339
what is that road called? seen it in movies alot
next time i visit USA i want to drive there
>>69278454
Most of the Chinese population lives in urban coastal areas, dipshit.
Did you really try to make the argument that the entire country of China is connected by high-speed train? Holy fuck you are dumb.
>>69278255
Better for shorter distances and train stations are more likely in the centre of town instead of outside the city
>>69277624
>Russia is on that list
![Eldeh[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/A261vKe.jpg "Eldeh[1].jpg")
You tell me.
>>69278454
China also has like a billion people, many of which are concentrated in cities.
>>69277624
i laughed so hard
man I had a lot of fun on that ride as a kid
>>69277999
>Plane
>death trap
>>69278291
Why would teens have debt
Cars, fuel, and insurance are far cheaper in the US than the UK.
Cars and planes are economically more feasible and faster than train transport. Big cities also have their own tram system, like Japan. Trains are therefore used for cargo or amusement.
We don't need to pay hundreds of quid a week to stuff ourselves into a crowded shit cart three hours early to slowly arrive at our government-appointed job as a London refugee fluffer.
>>69278597
US 163, Monument Valley, Utah.
>>69277490
And afaik the Greens and Social Democrats blocked any attempt to build the high speed, magnetic train in Germoney.
>>69278601
>What is California and the East Coast
I can't wait until you faggots find out Trump supports high speed rail so we can have daily threads
>>69278602
>Better for shorter distances
Cars.
>>69276532
no need for it. nobody takes the train to get anywhere in the US because it takes days even with high speed rail systems.
Despite the fancy exterior, I can't trust Chinese engineering at all. No way am I getting onto that death rocket.
>>69278200
>Because it would need to span a continent
China has a 2.3 thousand km high speed rail line.
Europe has high speed rail networks all over western Europe.
Why can't the richest nation in the world build something good?
>>69278769
>US 163, Monument Valley, Utah
thanks friend :^)
Why does Britain have a shitty rail network? Why do we have only one true high speed track which serves only 30 miles or so? And why is it cheaper to fly than to take the train, which, in most cases, costs 4-5 times more than flying?
>>69276532
Probably because NA's rail system is old as fuck and because NA's two first world countries take up more than the total area of yurop
>>69278607
>MLS
>>69276532
Because public transportation is socialism bong. People all own cars in freedomland.
>>69276532
>first world country meme
not again
will it ever end?
>>69278772
The realy funny part about that is, that the social democrats used to be a pro-technology party.
But that was before sucking nigger dick became their favorite past time.
>>69277219
I saw what was left of a guy after he jumped in front of a train that wasn't going to stop, 20 meters from me in East Midlands a week and a half ago. Train security guy shouted at me because i didnt evacuate immediately and stayed to peruse
>>69278607
Why is it not implemented on an intra-state and inter-state basis, then ?
>>69278603
because the average russian can't afford plane tickets.
Well which private company is going to design a highspeed rail system? Their government is broke and can't even maintain the infrastructure they already have.
>>69277793
Paris > Brussels = 1h.
Seems a bit faster than the queue on the airplane it self.
>>69278957
>Why does Britain have a shitty rail network?
Because nobody wants to pay to upgrade to the 21st century standards instead of Industrial Revolution tier railway tracks.
I really wish we had a high speed train from Cornwall to Wick
>>69278921
When China wants something built it takes the land it needs, takes the taxes it needs and gets it done because a single group is calling all the shots. In the US you'd have eminent domain battles, states lobbying for lines through their state, cities lobbying for passes near them, businesses doing the same. That's not counting the inevitable political pushback from the opposing party and citizens shitting themselves over taxes. It's not realistic right now.
Even with a high speed rail system you won't get very far. Our major cities are spread out like there's no fucking tomorrow. Not enough people need to get from Chicago to New York in 10 hours to justify building an entire rail system.
>>69279258
This is what Americans don't understand. High speed rail is superior for medium range distances.
>>69276532
Because trains are for public transportation peasantry.
>>69277080
Good luck getting that fucker above 70mph on our civil war era train tracks.
>>69278939
Seen this webm a couple of times, any context?
>>69276532
more often or not such trains would have to cross and stop through inner cities, ghettos, and other nigger infested areas
no one wants to transport crime
>>69279167
Federal government already has issues getting funding together AT ALL. The current fractured state of congress will not allow for a big project like this. This is why we need Trump.
Locally, there are some governments that look into high speed rail, but it has bitten some states in the ass in the past when they received a shitty product.
I'm pretty excited for what Texas is going to do with the hyperloop, though.
>>69277080
It only reaches top speed for like 25 minutes because of the tracks.
>>69276532
Money goes to jews in the middle east and niggers in US
Both do nothing for nobody
>>69278872
Pretty much this. Population density isn't high enough outside of the east coast for a large high speed rail to be profitable. Big cities in this country can be as far apart as major European capitals. It takes us as much time to drive from Maine to Florida as it does to drive from Poortugal to Poland.
>>69279574
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/23/michigan.shooting/
>>69276532
Did you forget that the US is also fucking huge and everyone likes driving?
>>69279300
We're happy to install a multi million pound tram network in Edinburgh that was overdue, unfinished and over budget
>>69276532
because niggers would ruin it
>>69276532
I'm hoping when Trump gets elected president he drastically improves our infrastructure, after all a country can't be great if it's running on century old rusted shit. Think of all the jobs it would make just improving the rail system and internet/phone lines. America would also get fit as fuck doing those jobs.
>>69278278
Wat
>>69278921
maybe that's why we're rich?
>>69276532
Europeans are the most shallow fucking people on the planet. The less like Europe we are, the better.
>>69276532
Yeah, we wish he had high speed rail too. Except that our country is bigger than most countries currently in existence out there. And the budgetary requirements for such an infrastructure overhaul, on both a federal and state level, would nearly bankrupt the country.
It isn't that I don't think it is a good idea. I just don't think it's plausible at this current juncture in time. I think we have a lot of things to fix with our roads, bridges, and utilities before we can even begin to look at rail expansion/upgrades.
>>69278939
Don't go there during the summer. Monument valley is pretty as fuck, but it's hot as all hell. Especially to someone like you, whose used to moderate summers. I live in Arizona. My uncle came here from Norway and basically had his time ruined because the average temperature was 115F (46C) degrees.
>>69280013
dead?
>>69278921
We might be able to if we didn't have to provide military for dead weight countries that focus on building railroads and importing muslims.
>>69280013
Reeeeeeeeekt
>>69279867
lmao what the fug :-D
>>69276532
m8, have you ever got on an Arriva train?They aren't very fucking good either. What's our excuse?
>>69279167
Texas is hoping to get rails going for the Triangle. Its one of maybe two regions in the entire US that will have massive benefits from high speed rail.
>>69279867
wut
The terrain and cost of re-laying newer track are some of the reason why we have no high speed system, but North America has one of the best diesel rail freight systems in the world.
>>69276532
NO!
You don't NEED that. It all depends on the policy you want to take. Don't make the same mistake Western Europe has done.
In Spain we have sacrificed the old train lines in favor of high speed rails. We left without communications many small towns before covered by the old trains (now they have to use bus), and it's still slower than airplane and usually more expensive. It's become a black hole to maintain these new railways too.
>>69280995
Looked like serious drugs, psychosis, or demon possession.
>>69276532
we spent all of our money on the niggers in chicago
>>69280995
>>69281168
Based Spain dropping in.
>>69281108
This is true
Thanks canada bro
>>69276532
United States Train is best train, it doesn't look like a penis designed to go up your godamned kike ass. Fuck you I'm driving my CO2 emitting truck.
So go shove your eurocuck trains up your ass.
>>69276532
Let me ask you this, OP:
Would you rather sit near a public toilet for 2 hours on a plane, or 2 days on a train?
>>69278204
>what is japan?
>>69281108
That moment when my company delivers ice to NCX and I knew it was a big rail yard but didn't understand how significant it was to 'murica
because airplanes are way fucking cooler than trains
>>69276532
because cars were pushed as a necessity for every american person to own
because getting a license is easy as fuck
We have a sprawling country composed of independently acting states, making socialist infrastructures like train travel more difficult
because domestic flights for the middle class got cheap in America earlier than other countries and the costs are usually comparable to fuel and hotel costs of a long trip
poor people still have Greyhound
We have a road trip/RV culture.
>>69277219
Great northern makes me want to top myself. Not to mention the fact the furthest north it goes is Kings Lynn. Virgin east coast are good though
America is better than bongladesh desu
>>69281168
Well, normally you add the high speed rails, without taking away REGULAR trains.
>>69276532
Because the others are public transport for poors who don't own pickup trucks. And if you want to go across the country you use a plane.
It's not even remotely surprising.
>>69276532
All of those countries are small as fuck except for china, i wouldnt ride chinas trains even if you paid me.
>>69278607
Don't forget Alaska.
>>69278601
This is a retarded argument. You retards realize the entire east coast of China, which is comparable in size if not larger to the U.S.'s, is connected now by high speed rail? If I'm not mistaken, Beijing to Shanghai was finished up about a year ago.
We really need to stop making excuses for how far we're falling behind.
>>69281481
This is why you use parking breaks in strong wind.
>>69281735
>Russia
>>69281481
why didnt the pilot use the tie downs?
>>69277514
We did numnuts
>>69281622
Virgin east coast is a lovely service. Makes 5 hour trips to Edinburgh bearable.
>>69281601
Also, if you are stupid enough to take the train you deserve to be stuck behind a slow as fuck freight train for the rest of the week.
>>69281797
Except we are not Ching Chong Chinamen, you collectivist cunt.
Only losers take the train.
>>69279301
...so exactly what happened with the interstate system, right?
They did it 60 years ago. We can do it again today.
>>69281881
Better off staying inside the train if scotland is your destination.
>>69281797
American education folks
>>69278067
>>69278070
these two
In North America our highways are set up so you don't have to board a train or wait on someone else, you just hope in your Chevy and fuckin go.
No one here really uses public transit and paid transit is really niche. Its such a limited market that there is no point.
>>69281980
>not wanting to travel at speeds up to 300kmph on the ground
fucking cucks
>>69281881
I live in Stevenage so I use it to go back and forth to London a lot, been on it as far up as Leeds once, anything to avoid great northern
>>69282140
Where am I wrong?
Infrastructure built in 50 and 60s and heavily influenced by segregated suburbs and the auto industry. Public projects taken over by private industry and hollowed out, lack of investment, for sake of showing short term profit. Then handed back industry to state in disrepair.
Anyway, this is why.
>>69277974
So can most Bongs, I honestly don't understand this public transport meme driving isn't hard
hoping for light rail
i'd rather sleep for my 1 hour commute to my shit fuckin job than sit in traffic and rage
>>69282232
>UP TO
>>69282345
Looks like India with that colour scheme
>>69282308
Because our country is big and spread out and we have a god tier road/highway system.
If your within a few hours, we drive (because why would you not want your car at the destination) - if its more than a few hours, we fly. because its cheap and easy and just about every city has an airport.
>>69282232
>traveling any speed in a box filled with nigs
shiggy
>>69282415
and? I still prefer it to flying
>>69282402
I'm hoping for more commercial cheap airlines. Rail is so dangerous in bc
Part of it is the US is fucking huge compared to Europe, and part of it is because the auto industry cock blocks all other efforts at other options for mass transportation
They want you to be dependant on cars to get a job.
>>69282493
Right, Shanghai - Guangdong already had a high speed line. They just finished up Beijing to Shanghai (the larger project) in the last year or two.
>>69276532
>>69278921
Because we are spending billions of dollars protecting you. Europeans don't need to pay much for their armies because Uncle Sam does it for them.
You Europeans don't ever seem to appreciate the fact that many of your luxuries are there because of the USA.
I wish the USA would stop protecting you. Our country could be so much greater if it spent more money on itself instead of on useless "allies."
because jews don't like riffraff. Poor people and bums are limited of the distance they can go. On trains they would not limited. Thats the simplified explination.
>>69276794
He worked for the taliban! Why do you think he knows aikido ? Fucking taliban!
>>69282528
that's practically what flying coach is nowadays though
at least on the ground you get to (somewhat) watch cool scenery pass by
>>69281980
If you have ever taken China's new highspeed train, you would love it. It' very noice and comfy unlike taking the airplane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If-fQtpCdFs
>>69282570
Enjoy the eternal hotbox and the chuchunkchuchunkchuchunk?
>>69276532
Americans can afford cars.
we do...
http://www.hsr.ca.gov/
>>69283016
it's actually quieter on the high speed rail than an airplane is
>>69282744
Thank's senpai, I like America a lot actually and don't agree with the constant slander you get from butthurt eurofags, it's like any chance they get even though the uk is shit with overpriced homes getting more expensive due to overpopulation
>>69283016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtS8M90Fto
nope
>>69283152
they haven't even started building yet and had to get bids from fucking chinks and japs because no american company can do it
embarrassing desu
>>69276532
us is a first world country but they are forbidden from doing anything that improves their citizens quality of life for any citizens below the top %5 income bracket
>>69278454
Like any sane man would ride a bullet train designed, built and maintained by the Chinese.
>>69282689
You miss the point entirely. The US population is spread out across the entire country making high speed rail impractical for linking population centers. China is concentrated entirely on the coast making high speed rail practical for linking population centers.
What, you going to build a Chicago-Los Angeles high speed rail line? New York-Dallas? San Francisco-New York? Washington DC-Seattle?
>>69281803
Parking brakes wouldn't have done shit.
That plane needed tie downs.
>>69283204
Only until the plane reaches cruising altitude.
>>69283338
yes they have, they started in Fresno last year. its on track to open in 2030. way earlier than any other planned project
Rails are backward. They're outdated tech and symbols of government waste.
>>69280731
saw this video a couple years ago the day it happened. he didnt die :D
Americans don't use public transport a lot.
Cars are like a cornerstone of the 'American dream/life'.
>>69283518
>high speed rail network
>connecting it to fresno
You had one fucking job.
>>69283379
IIRC, NYC - Florida is being thrown around as one of the first projects, and of course the West Coast (just certain cities in California right now)
>>69283152
but yes, at least the coastal populations should have high speed rail
>>69282066
Go to bed, Mark.
>>69283666
just the central valley line is set to be online by 2025, it will eventually connect every city by 2030
>>69283617
>public
why does it have to be public
>>69276532
The US uses the rail system mainly for cargo
people travel by plane, that's faster and cheaper in upkeep
people have no idea how much maintainance a high speed rail network needs.
>>69278626
>Cars, fuel, and insurance are far cheaper in the US than the UK.
This tbqh. I was gobsmacked at the prices of cool cars and trucks in the states.
And the price of fuel? I started laughing and spunking it out the nozzle all over the forecourt.
>>69276532
Because the USA is huge. In Japan you can get to all the major cities via high speed rail, in the USA you're crazy if you want to get from LA to NY by anything other than airplane.
>>69283897
what?
>>69283794
We should have thrown that faggot into the atlantic.
>>69279867
>woman randomly starts assaulting guy
>cop doesn't intervene until the guy defends himself
>>69279895
That's because nobody payed attention to the reports past the word 'Scotland'
>>69276532
Dont even have a high speed rail system....
AMERICA FUCK YEAHHH!!!!
>>69276532
Airlines and automobile company's cock block it because it could cut in to their profits.
>>69283925
>>69284019
This.
America does regional jet travel like nobodies business.
Your trains may go 200-250mph but planes go 500+mph, it's much faster and with a country the size of the US it only makes sense.
Because conservative faggots want to keep using oil for cars and not alternative mass-transpiration and spend all their money on a wall to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
>>69283794
>>69284174
Im the only mark on this board.
dont make me wage a jihad on u m8
>>69284531
Well hello Mr Al-Britanni
>>69278939
Route 66 is another really famous stretch of road that you've probably seen a lot of, officially it doesn't exist anymore and it's been intgrated into the highway system under many names but out west there are still stretches referee to has "historic route 66" and you see it a lot in movies. At one point when it still existed as its own road it ran all the way from Chicago to LA.
>>69279867
Bath salts man. Chick's literally crazy. Here's the full video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRyBGsMUMP0
>>69276532
Loool! You obviously haven't seen the Russian railroad.
>>69276532
Because we can all afford cars no matter how poor someone is.
Also getting a car is a right of passage into manhood in the U.S. It represents freedom to go and do things on your own, to take your own path in life responsibly, and independence. I know it's hard for euros who are 30 and live with their parents to understand.
>>69278597
movies?
>>69278453
underrated post
>>69284701
Route 395 is the best road Ive ever driven on- it fucking rocks, best days driving I've ever had, Southern Cali to Death Valley.
Perfect tarmac at 3000 feet, no traffic all day.
>>69276532
japan russia china and germany's look like subway or metra systems, which our cities already have in connection to our suburbs
france's appears to operate inbetween paris and lyon, this would be like a high speed rail way going from LA to SF. who cares, barely anyone would use it.
>>69283152
69 BILLION THAT WE COULD'VE INVESTED IN DESALINATION PLANTS
we are building one in california.
knowing how things are here, it'll be done in about 40 fuckin years.
We don't have a need for trains besides cargo and logistics. We all drive cars and have a country, culture, and daily life that revolves around cars. License is easily to get, cars are cheap(if you can turn a wrench you can be on the road for $1000 or less) and so is gas.
I have the freedom to go where I want when I want.
Because the US is yuuuuge compared to most European countries. Plus everyone has a car. Even the dirt poor have some shitty beater to clunk around in.
High speed railroads are expensive, and to have one that stretches all over the country like in Europe, is out of the question.
We got fucked over by an Italian company Ansaldo Breda who scammed or country with shitty trains that don't work.
Friends, don't let your friends buy trains from Italy.
>>69278607
jesus lord, seattle is the UK and florida is egypt
>>69285593
I am libertarian but would use the fuck out of a nationwide high speed rail
because some things fucking blow in the USA. surface transportation is one of those things.
>>69278100
Nice!
>>69283152
i'd probably die of thirst before they open it
>>69276532
We can actually afford cars and planes.
>>69276532
>Why doesn't the US have a high speed rail system?
Because mass transit carries a stigma in the US. The only people that use it are those that live in densely populated urban environments, like New York or Washington. For everyone else, mass transit is something they abandoned when blacks were no longer forced to sit in the back of the bus. Once blacks got free reign, white people just said "fuck it", and all went out to buy cars. Now mass transit is just for poor people, nig nogs, and big-city trash.
We have rail systems within cities which are connected by rail to other systems in other cities. That's plenty good enough. I can't imagine who would need to regularly take a train from state to state. There is no point taking the Train other than locally.
Besides why would you willingly take a train? I ride the train and subway to work and it's full of nigger and homeless ppl.
>>69285771
Fuck off california. If nature don't want you to be there, don't be there.
>>69277710
>Amtrak
This, but if you actually go read up on them, they're pretty much being micromanaged into the ground harder than NASA.
Something traveling insanely fast + muslims everywhere =/= great combo. in america we go slow because we are aware of the kebab alluh akbar menace.
>>69278454
Well that's China you stupid nigger loving jew bait fucking cunt!!! CUNTTTTTTTTTTT I'M SO HIGH
>>69287403
>MFW amtrak sucks, but private diesel freight envy of the world
>MFW USPS hemorrhaging money and still takes forever, to the point that not one but TWO companies said they could do better and did
>MFW i had a THIRD example, but forgot
The US government in a nutshell.
>>69276532
I'd like to see one of those hit a Moose
>>69278957
because of your "muh country side" nimbys who keep stopping any real rail projects like HS2
>>69276532
Everyone has cars you broke ass motherfucker.
>>69286168
Fucking hell they got you guys aswell.
>>69276532
Thought that was an autobot symbol on the Germany train.
>>69276532
We drive Cars cuck
>>69287858
>>MFW amtrak sucks, but private diesel freight envy of the world
The US heavy freight doesn't answer to Congress critters, hence the intelligent handling.
>>MFW USPS hemorrhaging money and still takes forever, to the point that not one but TWO companies said they could do better and did
USPS was fine until Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 and forced them to fund their pensions 75 years in advance. Republicans have a strange hardon for trying to destroy this service for whatever strange reason.
>>MFW i had a THIRD example, but forgot
Welp.
>>69288207
they sold us trams that can't handle cold and are so heavy that they tear up the tracks
such is life when the government just blindly hands out contracts to whoever is cheapest
>>69276532
I like the american train. Its comfy. Heads up high, americbros.
>>69289199
The Japanese one is the most comfy, fool.
The American one probably freight goods, not people.
America is a country dominated by cars because the automotive industry here is fucking huge. Why spend money on light rails when you can make a dickload on cars? Don't get me started on how our banks just looooove to give out auto loans.
>>69276532
Who gives a shit about high speed rail. I wouldn't use it even if we had it. They already approved a high speed rail in my state of California and I still am not going to ever use it.
>>69283971
Maybe a decade ago it's like 2$ a gallon now. Also don't forget the exchange rate u dumb britbong
The US has the largest and most dense rail network in the entire world. The just realized something that eurocucks and chingchongs didn't - that rail is much more suited to transporting freight than transporting people. And so, the US dedicates that rail network almost 100% to freight traffic. No one else moves as much total freight by rail as the US does, and only a few tiny ass countries like fucking Lesotho move more freight by rail per capita.
You see this shit? This is what a train is meant to do. And instead you cucks just use this great technology to transport millions of poor ass shitskins from Turkey deeper into Europe.
>>69276532
We have airplanes and cars that go faster than your sissy 70kmph "bullet" trains.
>>69289524
Im sorry, i wasnt to japan in my 23 years, but the train in the states was REALLY comfy, you flat-land fool.
>>69276532
>dat Japanese bullet train
>>69288631
>Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006
>Republicans have a strange hardon for trying to destroy this service for whatever strange reason.
>Implying that legislation didn't pass unanimously.
>>69289881
true, but a ride on a bullet train doesn't include an anal exam from a 40 year old black woman named Lashawnda
>>69276532
Those trains are ugly as shit desu
Flying is miserable and airports are hell holes.
Train transport in the US is ok in the Northeast. Not great, beats driving.
US is pretty 3rd world when it comes to rail travel though.
>>69278291
>in debt cause of cars
top pip
>>69289842
Meanwhile bongland cant even into intermodal double-stack...
>>69283004
Isn't it illegal for you to post here?
>>69290447
This desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4
>>69289524
Amtrak is exclusively a commuter train for poor people. Actual Americans fly because even in a high speed train it'd take 2-3x as long to get from point a to point b than a plane. Eurocucks don't fully understand just how big the U.S. is because of just how tiny their shitty countries are.
>>69277360
Try New York city, it literally has everything
>>69276532
Because the United States is fucking huge.
nearly half of the country is high desert mountain terrain.
Even here in commiefornia it is taking a lot of planning to build a high speed rail between San Jose and Los Angeles because of the mountains involved.
>>69291035
Amtrak is a ripoff. Poor people use Megabus
>>69291204
Poor people take amtrak. REALLY poor people take the bus.
>>69291134
don't forget we're highly populated and cant just drop rails anywhere we want
>>69283004
¥0.05 has been deposited into your WeChat from the 中共 shill fund.
>>69276532
I want to know why America sucks with transportation while all the other countries get cool ass tech :(
>>69291579
>why America sucks with transportation while all the other countries get cool ass tech
Airplanes? Do you really want that 2-hour flight to turn into a 4-5 hour train ride? No? Then shut the fuck up.
>>69277360
Where do you live? Cause Toronto has excellent train service, especially if you live along the shore of Lake Ontario. I work downtown, but live in a little town called Port Hope. It's almost a 2 hour drive from downtown, but the train is only an hour. Long commute, but I get to just sit down and chill out. Shit post on the internet, play portable vidya, whatever.
>>69291681
FAST GOD DAMN TRAINS
I WANNA SIT IN THAT AND NOT MOVE AND GOO 700 MILES AN HOUR
>>69276532
because we have the most cars/population of any major country by a large margin the closest large country to ours is Australia with over 10k cars less per 100k people
Cars and driving are inseparable from American lifestyle and culture and have been since they became widely available for use. If you are going somewhere to far to drive, you might as well take a plane, and chances are, you will rent a car once you are there too. They fit perfectly with the American sense of self determination, you go where you decide, and you don't want to be confined to the destinations buses or trains can take you.
>>69291314
>spending ~$200 more for about 2 inches more leg room and about a 45 minute reduction in travel time
amtrak passengers are more cucked than shillary supporters
>first world Anglo
>too poor to own multiple cars and needs fast Choo Choo.
>>69291028
What a beaut these old trains are
>>69281854
this is clearly a stunt.
you can see the wing of a bigger plane which is generating the thrust to lift the smaller one.
probably to show off the strength of the bigger plane
