• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know a country as spread out as the U.S. that has practical rail in all rural areas. Certainly not Canada or China or India.

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      1 year ago

      Canada is carbrained like the US, but China and India actually have extremely profuse rail networks.

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      1 year ago

      The U.S. The U.S. was that country. The country was built by train.

      Oh, and 80% of the population lives in cities!

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        1 year ago

        And that 80% of the population should have robust public transit.

        Then there’s the rest of us who don’t live in cities. The train never went out to farmer’s fields in the hopes of picking up people here and there who happened to live between them. That’s nonsense.