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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

And yet we don't have true hsr in the northeast, where the big cities are...

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 8 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.

or california. for.... some reason.