• BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Also trains in the US suck. Much slower, and almost comparable in price to air travel.

    It doesn’t have to be that way, many other countries have solved those issues. But because we’ve leaned so heavily on air travel to get us to places only a few hours away by land there hasn’t been any incentive to innovate or invest in other forms of long-distance mass transit.