Trains

How do we make passenger trains viable in the United States again?

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/n/ here. Pop density and stop using them as social welfare programs.

try to get people to move away from suburbs
build more rail lines. especially high speed trains countries that have high speed rail have shown that most people prefer them to air travel

>obsolete
lmao

In my shithole a plane ticket and a train ticket cost the same.

By obsolete it means people decided to just drive cars or fly on a plane.

Ask California about their Bullet train.

Nationalize a passenger rail network and upgrade it for high speed rail would be a good start

They try to act like rail has to be profitable on its own unlike all other types of infrastructure

complete waste of money and of course the different terrain poses a massive problem. this isn't some shitty condensed island like japan

Train commuter here... our trains fucking suck because we run them on old antiquated freight train routes. They are slow, congested, and always having technical fuck ups.
Also. One train hits a hobo on the route at 3pm....that train and every train after it is fucked. Feels bad man...

Train is overrated by eurotards because "muuuh airplane = C02 = bad" but train is geniunely the most boring and uncomfortable mean of transportation.

China built 20,000 km in the last 10 years .. I guess the USA is just destined for mediocrity?

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I commute to Manhattan every morning on a train to work. Nice ride. Generally cozy and quiet.

It's the most productive outside a plane. It would also be quicker and cheaper to take a train from Dallas to Detroit than a plane.

if china did it we can too
Japan is like 600 miles long

As long as niggers are allowed on, never.

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they use less energy and are actually preferred by most people for journeys under 400 miles in countries with high speed rail

unless you charge an obscene amount to make it so i don't have to ride a train with literal homeless people and a bunch of fucking minorities, you can't. you can't fix trains because trains are not for multicultural societies.

re-institutionalize the riff raff

>if china did it we can too
That's not American exceptionalism tho, what's next adopt the metric system?

Did they use their own shitty steel?

God I miss living and working in the city so bad. Driving feels like shit and it’s so boring

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I'm not riding some fucking public transportation get fucked. I bet you want me to eat bugs too.

>Fuck making my life easier.

For 8.30 EUR you can go everywhere in this shit-country as an adult.

why not, its better anyways

Get the money away from Feinstein.

Jow Forums here. Have you heard about the Jews?

Ahah yes, the famous (((productivity))) achieved trying to work in a train.
Also:
>It would also be quicker and cheaper to take a train from Dallas to Detroit than a plane
I highly doubt it.

If I have to spend more than 3 hours in a train I take the plane instead. I don't care if in the end it's longer due to the commute to the airport, security check, etc. after 3 hours in a train I'm so exhausted due to the uncomfort, the noise of shitskins shouting on the phone, ... that I need a full day to recover.

Based mountainjew

here you cant even cross a bridge without paying

you mean the ones that bought up all the public transports to make them suck (la street cars), so more people would buy cars and live in boomer suburbs

im my country a train ticket from paris to my city cost more than a two way plane ticket to your country and back

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Well that sentence I made was retarded because I forgot to proof-read. What I meant to say is it would be cheaper than a plane, faster than a car. Most Americans do take car rides from San Antonio to Detroit.

Retool Amtrak to be more like the old BR, and build track exclusively for Amtrak. Part of the problem is that in most areas Amtrak is second priority to freight service as they dont own most of the track they run on. Also build new locomotives for high speed service and a few new steamers like pic related, with modern tech to get people interested again. no one cares except rail fans when a diesel comes to town but steamers draw a crowd.

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Fucking luddites.

And sorry for saying, some cities are quite nice but holy fuck your infrastructure is old and just not maintained. Also, why is nothing planned? Over here you know a week in advance the platform a train will depart from. I guess in Portugal it is decided last-minute or something.

Chinesium.

I don’t understand why so many people in this country act like cars are “freedom” and public transportation makes you feel like a caged rat. For me it’s the exact opposite. I felt a lot more free in the city when I felt I could walk outside when I wanted and wasn’t forced to take a car everywhere. In the suburbs you feel trapped in your car because you need it with you absolutely everywhere you go. Meanwhile in the city there’s a lot of places to walk around on your lunch break or something, and if you grab a drink you can just ride home without worrying about driving. I loved the feeling of just being able to walk to and from work, and taking a short bus ride instead of always just having to drive. With a car it’s like you’re trapped in a pod and have no real interaction with the outside world

True. In Japan, these trains are photographed at every stop by many.

America has a car culture, whether it was indoctrinated from youth or influenced by movies it's still there. It's also not necessarily logical.

Agreed. My commute home by car would take 75-90 minutes dead stop in a car wanting to neck myself. I could get that down to 60-75 minutes if I want to pay 20 bucks for the express lanes.

Train is 55 minutes stress free 95% of the time.

I take a fair number of trains and here are my suggestions:
1. Niggers ruin anything. The nyc subways are infested and they make them generally unpleasant to be in, not to mention fare skipping etc
2. See 1

Yeah, especially when you have a shitty service that asks for so much money like we do. Fuck SBB

Everyone wants cozy rail to get places, but public transit inevitably gets populated and staffed by blacks.

Blacks aren't cozy.

Only legal way to keep blacks off your train is to set the ticket fare way up. Price them out. But if the ticket fare is too high, people just drive.

Nigger, SBB is spot-on everytime compared to my country's train company. It is basically the same price as SBB if you take a sparbiljette with a half-abbo. You really cannot complain.

Employ black people to police their own. Does it work?

When kids see something like this, you have a lifetime customer. youtube.com/watch?v=5eggYBVAYiI

Penn station was destroyed on purpose by jews

Slash thread

>after 3 hours in a train I'm so exhausted due to the uncomfort,
You must be a manlet because the leg room on a train is glorious and on a plane it is horrendous

lol
>high speed
Doing like 70 mph
Did it even produce a gust of wind?
Now stand at a platform in Japan when one goes by doing 200+

/o/ here
Why would I want to take a shitty fucking train over my 5-speed shitbox?

lmao you have no idea
Trains are ALWAYS late when you need them (rush hour) and if you dare to complain they're always "but we're better than others" no shit I also pay double the price, half-abo costs already a lot plus regional-Abos etc.
They give no shit and are convinced that they are the best while doing nothing to be better because it's a fucking state owned monopoly. And don't get me started on when I used to take the train to travel to the southern part of Switzerland from Zürich, a fucking disaster, forced to get out of trains, waiting for hours in some village because the connections was packed and "oh you can't get inside, you should have reserved" even though they like to jerk their cock saying "we are proud of the fact that you can decide last minute to hop on a train because you don't need a reservation to travel in Switzerland".
They're shit and overpriced, but convinced of being the best at everything. Like most of the services in this country (e. g. Swisscom)

Trains are never late in Japan.

Ok, that's pretty bad (always took the IC trains Genf, Laussanne, Zürich). Especially compared to my shit-country, where they actually have to pay you a taxi if they fail to bring you to your final destination that day. You also pay for the "route". If you are not a retard (tourists never know this), you can go anywhere for 8.30 EUR a trip as an adult without any abbo's.

But why didn't you take Swiss-pass? It is probably a lot cheaper than all those abbo's?