I don’t blow men, if that’s your thing enjoy but that’s nasty. you went on a tangent over those subways and are lusting after Japanese trains. go there man enjoy the trains
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The US once had comparable trains believe it or not but we abandoned them. We could start rebuilding that infrastructure. Trains are much more efficient than cars and in the future they might return to a place of high importance in US culture.
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the market spoke and the people didn’t want it.
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A little more complicated than that but okay.
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My larger point was that there could be a time when we return to trains. The US train system started and peaked within 100 years. With today’s technology we could rebuild it much faster with faster, more efficient trains. With climate change, this might become imperative.
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We don't have good, competent public transit for the same reason we don't live in certain neighborhoods. A great deal of modern tech is devoted to avoiding increasingy hostile, chaotic public spaces.
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That’s an interesting debate topic. I would argue that avoiding public spaces is a problematic side-effect rather than a feature of tech. Not necessarily true everywhere. Places where people keep to themselves were probably already that way.
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