I guess it’s covered by 5., but the real, actual reason we can’t have trains is the civil engineering firms can’t extract infinite money from a completed railway.
Also, have you considered how any public works project that runs longer than a single term of the elected official who gets it approved, is letting the next guy get all the credit for it? That’s much worse than having functional mass transit.
There’s a huge sprawling rainwaterrailway network across America… It’s just only used by freight cause the bastards that own it decided passengers are unprofitable
Assuming rail autocorrected to rainwater, agreed. There are interesting parallels between rail in the 1800s and the life cycle of the internet - successful network technology explodes in utility and popularity, then is cannibalized and constricted
It’s the story of the USA in general, y’all seem to fall for it every time, gov makes something mildly socialist, corporate muscle their way in, cannibalise and constrict it, and then everyone’s told “see, there’s no way it could have worked! USA is just too big/different/free/wilddeleteas appropriate”
The conservatives that filed the many, many lawsuits that delayed construction over and over again are the same people complaining about how long it’s taking to be completed. They caused the delays and are the most vocal about the delays. It makes no sense.
I guess it’s covered by 5., but the real, actual reason we can’t have trains is the civil engineering firms can’t extract infinite money from a completed railway.
Also, have you considered how any public works project that runs longer than a single term of the elected official who gets it approved, is letting the next guy get all the credit for it? That’s much worse than having functional mass transit.
Have you looked at railway maps?
There’s a huge sprawling
rainwaterrailway network across America… It’s just only used by freight cause the bastards that own it decided passengers are unprofitableAssuming rail autocorrected to rainwater, agreed. There are interesting parallels between rail in the 1800s and the life cycle of the internet - successful network technology explodes in utility and popularity, then is cannibalized and constricted
It’s the story of the USA in general, y’all seem to fall for it every time, gov makes something mildly socialist, corporate muscle their way in, cannibalise and constrict it, and then everyone’s told “see, there’s no way it could have worked! USA is just too big/different/free/wild
delete as appropriate”California seems to be good at infinite money extraction for rail that never finishes.
The conservatives that filed the many, many lawsuits that delayed construction over and over again are the same people complaining about how long it’s taking to be completed. They caused the delays and are the most vocal about the delays. It makes no sense.
I mean, it makes perfect sense particularly if you don’t want (really, get paid to not want) people to get off cars