Highspeed rail is B$it

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ok ok yeah I agree with all of that, but kavah was saying that the only reason airplane tickets are cheep is because the goverment pays the airline industry and manufacturers, and if they didn't that trains would be better.

Obviously my answer to that question would be: nobody would or could ever build the train system without the goverment.

So yeah, let me change it to, if they each got 50 billion a year from the goverement - which would be better?

My argument still would be planes would be vastly superior.

Lets not even talk about the amount of eminent domain we'd have to just "give" the trains to be able to work.

Lets not forget what American above ground trains are like:



The arguments that like, japan does it well compared to how we would do it are completely irrelevant, because in japan they wore masks when they were sick before we even knew they ate bats in china.

Ours would be shit - as was the air travel system during the low low prices of covid:



So yeah in utopia, or type 2 society? Sure trains. In ours? No.

Japan has an advantage in creating public infrastructure because they're a unitary state, like the UK.