None of the Above (decision to use govt transportation funding to build and maintain highways instead)
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I see the US in the 1950s as a "fork in the road/rails", could have gone either way. We made our decision and stuck to it.
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None, oil is king (highways and gasoline consumption)
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There is a bizarre requirement for each element of the transit system to be individually profitable. Like if you said your account department or your data science team had to be profitable. Bonkers.
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"too large a country" is, as they say, "problematic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_map_of_PRC.svg …
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Hostile governance in that the existing rail companies do not want to let travel use their right of ways and that eminent domain for new right of ways would be ridiculously expensive under the current systems
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Are oil and motor industry lobbying considered part of hostile governance?
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I think it's due to the lack of density in the cities themselves.
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