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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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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But its not like the Japanese model can't be applied area-by-area. No one's asking you to connect Austin to NYC but Houston roads look like this and there's still not one commuter railpic.twitter.com/GcgXOF6hW7
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Houston roads may be bad sometimes but you're using a misleading picture from a past hurricane evacuation.
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…something also easier with trains running emergency schedule?
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