• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    Although the US and Europe are nearly identical in area, Europe’s population centers are far more uniformly distributed. Big cities in America are mostly around the edges, with a vast, sparsely populated area in the middle. Most intercity train service in America is in that fringe, where the spacing between cities is more like in Europe.

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      Sure, intercity will never work in the US. Except on both coasts. And upper Midwest. And in a couple mountain and high desert areas. Dammit, that’s like 70% of the population

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        20 hours ago

        True, but the post is about trains being on schedule (or showing up at all), not about speed. I wasn’t saying US trains service is as good as European.

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          Is this a “glass half full” thing? Can a non-existent train never be late or never be in time?

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            No, it’s not a value judgement of any kind. Imagine that - just making an observation with no implications or underlying opinion to swipe left/right on. What a concept.

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          19 hours ago

          Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

          Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.

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            100 years ago was also before the era of profit hyper-optimization, which it turns out de-optimizes every other aspect of a thing.