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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 Retweeted Guido Fawkes

      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 …

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 added,

      Guido FawkesVerified account @GuidoFawkes
      Replying to @MarkDiStef @tnewtondunn @BBCr4today
      Myth. City trains packed, intercity trains ditto. Rural services patchy. Next.
      7 replies 17 retweets 109 likes
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    2. Hollow Man‏ @HollowFestival Jun 5
      Replying to @380kmh

      "Ah yes. I'm sure farmers are just BEGGING for their property to be carved like a ham via rail." The reason rural coverage is 'spotty' is because Japan doesnt just rip through everything like the US Feds do as far as I know

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    3. Chiaki Matsuda‏ @Chiakipus Jun 5
      Replying to @HollowFestival @380kmh

      What even is "spotty"? The network is excellent by European or American standards.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5
      Replying to @poiThePoi @Chiakipus

      this is a poor take--people in Japan use airplanes for long-distance trips too, even if it's possible to make the trip by train instead

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5
      Replying to @380kmh @poiThePoi @Chiakipus

      needless to say, most Japanese airports are accessible by train, and all (that I know of) are accessible by bus)

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    6. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
      Replying to @380kmh @Chiakipus

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5
      Replying to @poiThePoi @Chiakipus

      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!

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. Chiaki Matsuda‏ @Chiakipus Jun 5
      Replying to @380kmh @poiThePoi

      Japan's rail network is also fully privatized, yet cheap /and/ running a profit, despite building everything locally.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Chiaki Matsuda‏ @Chiakipus Jun 5
      Replying to @Chiakipus @380kmh @poiThePoi

      (It helps that Japanese unions, unlike American ones, are not mafias.)

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5
      Replying to @Chiakipus @poiThePoi

      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

      8:18 AM - 5 Jun 2018
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        2. Hollow Man‏ @HollowFestival Jun 5
          Replying to @planefag @380kmh and

          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

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Inverness‏ @InvernessMoon Jun 5
          Replying to @HollowFestival @planefag and

          Houston roads may be bad sometimes but you're using a misleading picture from a past hurricane evacuation.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Chiaki Matsuda‏ @Chiakipus Jun 5
          Replying to @InvernessMoon @planefag and

          …something also easier with trains running emergency schedule?

          3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. planefag‏ @planefag Jun 5
          Replying to @Chiakipus @InvernessMoon and

          Long-distance passenger rail doesn't work in the US. We know it doesn't because we used to have it and when the horseless carriage was invented it fucking murdered it with great efficiency. But urban light rail? Well...

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. planefag‏ @planefag Jun 5
          Replying to @planefag @Chiakipus and

          ... the incompetence is so fucking thick and fast with all the municipalities who've attempted it that I honestly can't tell if it's simply unworkable in our cities as built, or if incompetents have just fucked it up at every single goddamned turn, it's that big a mess.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        7. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
          Replying to @planefag @Chiakipus and

          Little bit of both. In Detroit, retrofitting mass transit onto the mile roads can never happen because of the 10-15 minute walks to the mile roads, and there aren't half-mile infills. However... best practices exist for a reason, and we don't do any of that.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
          Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag and

          The basic problem is that transportation is a 3-way tradeoff between: * Speed * Distance between stops * Capacity. Roads get a 7 on the speed, a 10 on the stops, and a 2 on the capacity.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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