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  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    631·
    3 months ago

    You tend to lag behind when your laws are bought by corporate interests keen on keeping it the same

  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.

    In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      261·
      3 months ago

      The WW II US rail network is loonnnnggggg gone and doesn’t really have any effect on the modern day. What remains is mostly freight rail run by a few oversized rail corporations… and they’re surely in no hurry to abandon their diesel engines.

      There’s also not huge political pressure because rail is already a very efficient way to transport goods. Spreading rail would have better effects than electrifying rail.

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers?

      We spent all our rail money on the interstate highways and their exorbitant maintenance costs.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      They’re probably not counting subways. It may even be just intercity rail, which mostly supports freight. You have thousands of miles of freight rail crossing the entire country, and only the Acela passenger track in the northeast is electrified

    • Psuedocoder@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      India is at 95% and Switzerland at 99%. PS. Just found it in random news article so numbers might not be correct.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    wouldn’t be so far behind if muskrat didn’t set us behind by about a decade due to his monorail project

    • itsgoodtobeawake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      3 months ago

      Yes. Fearmonger more. You keep up that driving! The rest of us will take advantage of more spare time to read while we cruise smoothly by the cars sitting in traffic. Truly a nightmare.

    • LedgeDrop@lemm.eeEnglish
      121·
      3 months ago

      Innevitably whatever public transportation you use the route will end up in the ghetteo.

      This is a mindset that many people in the U.S. will need to get over before the “quality” of public transport improves: that busses, trains, subways are for “the poor”.

      I’ve been on the subways in New York and busses and trains elsewhere in the States. They’re gross. Especially, compared to most of Europe (Italy, Denmark, Germany, etc). In Asia, they’re also a clean. The mindset in Asia and Europe is “this is what people (not just the poor) take to get from point A to point B”. There aren’t school busses, the kids just take the same city bus/train/subway that all the other people take to get to work.

      I’ve spent 45 minutes in the States on my daily commute staring at (and riding on) the bumper of the car in front of me. I’ve also spent 45 minutes, in Europe, peacefully riding the subway to work. I’m able to surf the web, watch a video, relax. I definitely enjoy/recommend the later experience.

      • DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I’m pretty sure the socially unacceptable behavior from homeless drug addicts is driven by factors that drive homelessness and drug addiction and not by the preference of most people to avoid homeless drug addicts in public spaces. Unless you’re implying law enforcement or society at large “clean up” public transportation…