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    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. 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

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    5. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
      Replying to @HollowFestival @planefag and

      Each lane is 2000 cars/hour/lane. Assuming that the offramps aren't the bottlenecks (Narrator: They were the bottlenecks). The L train runs 24,000/hour in each direction. So best case, that's *one line* on a subway. Which goes all of 12 MPH.

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    6. Hollow Man‏ @HollowFestival Jun 5
      Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag and

      Don't forget about highway fatalities, ever present construction, and complete jams on a daily basis

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    7. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
      Replying to @HollowFestival @planefag and

      Don't forget about one of the largest armies on the planet, with its own international intelligence agency, that's specifically dedicated to protecting that subway system. Houston's issue is that they're smack-dab in the traffic/transit gap.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. planefag‏ @planefag Jun 5
      Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh @Chiakipus

      Hell the Japanese model has a great possible application - California. Dense cities all lined up along a coast, right? Why doesn't it exist? Because >California

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    9. afai sfhjnkn‏ @poiThePoi Jun 5
      Replying to @planefag @380kmh @Chiakipus

      That's... not quite accurate. If you want, I'll do the full tweetstorm, but basically: 1) SF is 2 mountain ranges, a bay, and a faultline directly west of the Central Valley. 2) The Grapevine is a terrifying monstrosity in a car, much less a train limited to a 1% grade.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 5
      Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag @Chiakipus

      Japan is not exactly without mountain ranges and faultlines bro

      10:32 AM - 5 Jun 2018
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