Surely nobody will deny that I support rail for the USA but 1) China has 4x our population 2) China's rail is mostly in 1/3 of its areahttps://twitter.com/WaltSChambers/status/840209006752849920 …
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Surely nobody will deny that I support rail for the USA but 1) China has 4x our population 2) China's rail is mostly in 1/3 of its areahttps://twitter.com/WaltSChambers/status/840209006752849920 …
Haunted Forrest 🌲 added,
Please, for the sake of the cause, make responsible comparisons
lol no way, the USA is still doing much worse than it ought to given its wealth and population
We're actually pretty goodpic.twitter.com/w8GhwfHyq2
US uses rail a lot, but mostly for freight. We're 3rd for freight tonnes / capita shipping.
Using rail primarily for freight is some 3rd world shit; Japan and Germany send most freight on roads
I need to build a table of ratios between rail freight and rail passenger use to illustrate this point
Japan and Germany don't have the distance problems like we do. Taking containers from LA to CHI by road is dumb
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