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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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
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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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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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Don't forget about highway fatalities, ever present construction, and complete jams on a daily basis
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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.
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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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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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Japan is not exactly without mountain ranges and faultlines bro
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