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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (2 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 10 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 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 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 9 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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

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

or california. for.... some reason.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

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