This is a new one: this fellow is saying Japan's excellent railway network is a myth because it...is busy and goes everywherehttps://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1003911876915486721 …
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needless to say, most Japanese airports are accessible by train, and all (that I know of) are accessible by bus)
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Oh yes. America doesn't have a rail network because of: * 1960's through 1990's white flight which made all interurban travel suburb->suburb or suburb->urban at best. * Transit Unions who double the cost of rail service if not more. * Buy America
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Lion's share of Japanese rail ridership is also suburb-suburb and suburb-urban; that's where the most profitable routes are. Domestic manufacture is a tremendous asset to their railways, and their railway workers are unionized. The problems here aren't as simple as they look!
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Japan's rail network is also fully privatized, yet cheap /and/ running a profit, despite building everything locally.
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(It helps that Japanese unions, unlike American ones, are not mafias.)
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the rail unions were violent saboteurs during the 70s when threatened with downsizing, it took a very careful and dedicated effort by management to bring them to heel
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Yeah, the Nozomi express trains are awesome to ride in… but also as expensive as airplanes, and still a bit slower when you're travelling from one end of Japan to the other. Still, The other bullet trains are excellent for shorter distances (<500km)
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